Lao Che Air Freight owned a Ford Tri-Motor for cargo flights across Asia. It had a small cockpit for two pilots, a main cargo area, and a separated area in the tail. In 1935, one such flight was scheduled to depart from Shanghai's Nang Tao Airport in the evening, when Earl Weber booked passage for Indiana Jones, Short Round, and Willie Scott on the first available flight from the city - and it happened to be on the Ford Tri-Motor, carrying a load of poultry to Bangkok, Siam.. As Jones and his friends hurried aboard, the pilot took off, leaving Jones' pursuers - Lao Che's associates on the ground. Jones used the small tail area to change from his tuxedo into his adventuring clothes before falling asleep. As the plane traveled over the countryside, they passed near to the Great Wall of China.