Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor.

He has been a leading man in films of

several genres, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.[1] His films have grossed more than
$5.4 billion in North America and more than $9.3 billion worldwide.[2][3][4] Ford is the recipient of various
accolades, including the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an Honorary
César, and an Honorary Palme d'Or, in addition to an Academy Award nomination.[5][6]
Ford made his film debut in an uncredited appearance in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
and went on to play supporting roles in such films as Journey to Shiloh (1968), Getting
Straight (1970), American Graffiti (1973), and The Conversation (1974). He gained worldwide fame
for his starring role as Han Solo in the epic space opera film Star Wars (1977), a role he reprised
in four sequels over the next four decades. The multimedia franchise became a global cultural
phenomenon. Ford is also known for his portrayal of the titular character in the popular media
franchise Indiana Jones, beginning with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He
played the character in four additional sequels over the next four decades and also starred as Rick
Deckard in the cult science fiction film Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner
2049 (2017), and portrayed Jack Ryan in the spy thriller films Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and
Present Danger (1994).
Ford's on-screen career spans six decades in both film and television. His other films
include Witness (1985), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best
Actor, The Mosquito Coast (1986), Working Girl (1988), Presumed Innocent (1990), Regarding
Henry (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Sabrina (1995), The Devil's Own (1997), Air Force
One (1997), Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Random Hearts (1999), What Lies Beneath (2000), K-
19: The Widowmaker (2002), Firewall (2006), Morning Glory (2010), Cowboys &
Aliens (2011) 42 (2013), The Age of Adaline (2015), and The Call of the Wild (2020). Ford has since
starred in the Paramount+ western series 1923 (2022–present) and the Apple TV+ comedy
series Shrinking (2023–present).
Outside of acting, Ford is a licensed pilot; he has often assisted the emergency services in rescue
missions near his home in Wyoming, and he chaired an aviation education program for youth from
2004 to 2009.[7] Ford is also an environmental activist, having served as the inaugural vice chair
of Conservation International since 1991.[8]

Early life and education

Harrison Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois,[9] on July 13, 1942,
[10]
to former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John
William "Christopher" Ford.[11] His younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945.[12] Their father was a
Catholic of Irish descent,[11] while their mother was an Ashkenazi Jew whose parents were
emigrants from Minsk, Belarus, then in the Russian Empire.[11][13] When asked in which religion he and
his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded "Democrat"[14] and more seriously stated that they
were raised to be "liberals of every stripe".[15] When asked about what influence his Jewish and Irish
Catholic ancestry may have had on him, he quipped, "As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've
always felt Jewish."[16][17][18]
Ford was a Boy Scout, achieving the second-highest rank of Life Scout. He worked at Napowan
Adventure Base Scout Camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he
and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout
in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Ford graduated in 1960 from Maine East High
School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's
new radio station, WMTH,[17] and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He
attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin,[17] where he was a philosophy major and a member of
the Sigma Nu fraternity. A self-described "late bloomer",[19] Ford took a drama class in the final
quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness and became fascinated with acting.[20][21][22] Ford
was expelled from college four days before graduation.[23]
Career
1964–1976
In 1964, after a season of summer stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin,[24][25] Ford traveled to
Los Angeles and eventually signed a contract with Columbia Pictures' new talent program.[11]: 60–69 His
first known role was an uncredited one as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
There is little record of his non-speaking (or "extra") roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring
list, having offended producer Jerry Tokofsky after he played a bellboy in the feature. According to
one anecdote, Tokofsky told Ford that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he could
tell that Curtis was a movie star whereas Ford wasn't; Ford immediately retorted that if Curtis was
truly a talented actor, he would've delivered them like a bellhop. Ford was apparently fired soon
after.[11][page needed][26]
His speaking roles continued next with Luv (1967), though he was still uncredited. He was finally
credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 Western film A Time for Killing, starring Glenn
Ford, George Hamilton and Inger Stevens, but the "J" did not stand for anything since he has no
middle name. It was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who
appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. Ford later said that he
was unaware of the existence of the earlier actor until he came upon a star with his own name on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ford soon dropped the "J" and worked for Universal Studios, playing
minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s,
including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I., Love, American Style and Kung Fu. He
appeared in the western Journey to Shiloh (1968) and had an uncredited, non-speaking role
in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 film Zabriskie Point as an arrested student protester. In 1968, he
also worked as a camera operator for one of the Doors' tours.[27] French filmmaker Jacques
Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of
Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more
experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. Ford later commented that the
experience had been nevertheless a positive one because Demy was the first to show such faith in
him.[28][29]
Not happy with the roles offered to him, Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter[17] to
support his then-wife and two young sons. Clients at this time included the writers Joan
Didion and John Gregory Dunne, who lived on the beach at Malibu. Ford appears in the
documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. He and his wife became friends of the writers.
[30]
Casting director and fledgling producer Fred Roos championed the young Ford and secured him
an audition with George Lucas for the role of Bob Falfa, which Ford went on to play in American
Graffiti (1973).[17] Ford's relationship with Lucas profoundly affected his career later. After
director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his
office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse
Now (1979); in the latter film, Ford played an army colonel named "G. Lucas".
1977–1997
Ford's work in American Graffiti eventually landed him his first starring film role, when Lucas hired
him to read lines for actors auditioning for roles in Lucas's upcoming epic space-opera film Star
Wars (1977). Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's performance during these line reads and
cast him as Han Solo.[31] Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of
all time, and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition.
Ford began to be cast in bigger roles in films throughout the late 1970s,
including Heroes (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978) and Hanover Street (1979). He also co-
starred alongside Gene Wilder in the buddy-comedy western The Frisco Kid (1979), playing a bank
robber with a heart of gold. Ford returned to star in the successful Star Wars sequels The Empire
Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), as well as the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).
Ford wanted Lucas to kill off Han Solo at the end of Return of the Jedi, saying, "That would have
given the whole film a bottom," but Lucas refused.[32]

Ford with production manager Chandran Rutnam on the set

of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1983
Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), an action-
adventure collaboration between Lucas and Steven Spielberg that gave Ford his second franchise
role as the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. Like Star Wars, the film was massively
successful; it became the highest-grossing film of the year. Spielberg was interested in casting Ford
from the beginning, but Lucas was not, having already worked with him in American Graffiti and Star
Wars. Lucas relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.[33] Ford went on to reprise the role
throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and
the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). During the June 1983 filming of Temple of
Doom in London, Ford herniated a disc in his back. The 40-year-old actor was forced to fly back to
Los Angeles for surgery and returned six weeks later.[34]
Following his leading-man success as Indiana Jones, Ford played Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's
dystopian science-fiction film Blade Runner (1982). Compared to his experiences on the Star
Wars and Indiana Jones films, Ford had a difficult time with the production. He recalled to Vanity
Fair, "It was a long slog. I didn't really find it that physically difficult—I thought it was mentally
difficult." Ford and Scott also had differing views on the nature of his character, Deckard, that persist
decades later.[35] While not initially a success, Blade Runner became a cult classic and one of Ford's
most highly regarded films.[36] Ford proved his versatility throughout the 1980s with dramatic parts in
films such as Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and Frantic (1988), as well as the
romantic male lead opposite Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver in the comedy-drama Working
Girl (1988). Witness and The Mosquito Coast allowed Ford to explore his potential as a dramatic
actor, and both performances were widely acclaimed.[37][38] Ford later recalled that working with
director Peter Weir on Witness and The Mosquito Coast were two of the best experiences of his
career.[39]
In late 1991, Ford was slated to portray company lawyer A. Philip Randolph in an action-historical
film entitled Night Ride Down, which would have been set around a labor union strike in the 1930s.[40]
[41][42]
Paramount Pictures shelved the project, after Ford quit the film over script changes he
disagreed with.[42][43] In the years that followed, Ford became the second actor to portray Jack Ryan in
two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: Patriot
Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), both co-starring Anne Archer and James Earl
Jones. Ford took over the role from Alec Baldwin, who had played Ryan in The Hunt for Red
October (1990). This led to long-lasting resentment from Baldwin, who said that he had wanted to
reprise the role but Ford had negotiated with Paramount behind his back.[44] Ford played leading
roles in other action-based thrillers throughout the decade, such as The Fugitive (1993),[45] The
Devil's Own (1997), and Air Force One (1997). For his performance in The Fugitive, which co-
starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career, including
from Roger Ebert, who concluded that, "Ford is once again the great modern movie everyman. As
an actor, nothing he does seems merely for show, and in the face of this melodramatic material he
deliberately plays down, lays low, gets on with business instead of trying to exploit the drama in
meaningless acting flourishes."[46]
Ford played more straight dramatic roles in Presumed Innocent (1990) and Regarding Henry (1991),
and another romantic lead role in Sabrina (1995), a remake of the classic 1954 film of the same
name. Ford established working relationships with many well-regarded directors during this time,
including Weir, Alan J. Pakula, Mike Nichols, Phillip Noyce, and Sydney Pollack, collaborating twice
with each of them. This was the most lucrative period of Ford's career. From 1977 to 1997, he
appeared in 14 films that reached the top 15 in the yearly domestic box-office rankings, 12 of which
reached the top ten.[47] Six of the films he appeared in during this time were nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Picture, among other awards: Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Raiders of
the Lost Ark, Witness, Working Girl, and The Fugitive.
1998–2014
In the late 1990s, Ford started appearing in several critically derided and/or commercially
disappointing films that failed to match his earlier successes, including Six Days, Seven
Nights (1998), Random Hearts (1999), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Hollywood
Homicide (2003), Firewall (2006) and Extraordinary Measures (2010). One exception was What Lies
Beneath (2000), which grossed over $155 million in the United States and $291 million worldwide.
[48]
Ford served as an executive producer on K-19: The Widowmaker and Extraordinary Measures,
both of which were based on true events.
In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller Syriana, later commenting that "I didn't feel
strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake."[49] The role went
to George Clooney, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work. Before that, Ford had
passed on a role in another Stephen Gaghan-written film, that of Robert Wakefield in Traffic, which
went to Michael Douglas.

Ford at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival

In 2008, Ford enjoyed success with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull, the first Indiana Jones film in 19 years and another collaboration with Lucas and Spielberg.
The film received generally positive reviews and was the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in
2008.[50] Ford later said he would like to star in another sequel "if it didn't take another 20 years to
digest."[51]
Other 2008 work included Crossing Over, directed by Wayne Kramer. In the film, Ford plays an
ICE/Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent, working alongside Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta.
He also narrated a feature documentary film about the Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama Renaissance.[52] Ford
filmed the medical drama Extraordinary Measures in 2009 in Portland, Oregon.[53] Released on
January 22, 2010, the film also starred Brendan Fraser and Alan Ruck. Also in 2010, he co-starred
in the film Morning Glory, along with Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton and Patrick Wilson.[54] Although
the film was a disappointment at the box office, Ford's performance was well received by critics,
some of whom thought it was his best role in years.[55] In July 2011, Ford starred alongside Daniel
Craig and Olivia Wilde in the science-fiction/western hybrid film Cowboys & Aliens. To promote the
film, he appeared at the San Diego Comic-Con International and, apparently surprised by the warm
welcome, told the audience, "I just wanted to make a living as an actor. I didn't know about
this."[56] Also in 2011, Ford starred in Japanese commercials advertising the video game Uncharted
3: Drake's Deception for the PlayStation 3.[57]
2013 began a trend that saw Ford accepting more diverse supporting roles. That year, he co-starred
in the corporate espionage thriller Paranoia with Liam Hemsworth and Gary Oldman, whom he had
previously worked with in Air Force One,[58] and also appeared in Ender's Game, 42 and Anchorman
2: The Legend Continues. His performance as Branch Rickey in the film 42 was praised by many
critics and garnered Ford a nomination as best supporting actor for the Satellite Awards. In 2014, he
appeared in The Expendables 3, and the following year, co-starred with Blake Lively in the romantic
drama The Age of Adaline to positive reviews.[59]
2015–present

Ford at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con

Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force
Awakens (2015), which was highly successful, like its predecessors.[60] During filming on June 11,
2014, Ford suffered what was said to be a fractured ankle when a hydraulic door fell on him. He was
airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England, for treatment.[61][62] Ford's son Ben released
details on his father's injury, saying that his ankle would likely need a plate and screws, and that
filming could be altered slightly, with the crew needing to shoot Ford from the waist up for a short
time until he recovered.[63] Ford made his return to filming in mid-August, after a two-month layoff as
he recovered from his injury.[64][65] Ford's character was killed off in The Force Awakens,[66] but it was
subsequently announced, via a casting call, that Ford would return in some capacity as Solo
in Episode VIII.[67] In February 2016, when the cast for Episode VIII was confirmed, it was indicated
that Ford would not reprise his role in the film after all.[68] When Ford was asked whether Solo could
come back in "some form", he replied, "Anything is possible in space."[69] He eventually made an
uncredited appearance as a vision in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).[70][71]
On February 26, 2015, Alcon Entertainment announced Ford would reprise his role as Rick Deckard
in Denis Villeneuve's science fiction sequel film Blade Runner 2049.[72] The film, and Ford's
performance, was very well received by critics upon its release in October 2017.[73] Scott Collura
of IGN called it a "deep, rich, smart film that's visually awesome and full of great sci-fi concepts" and
Ford's role "a quiet, sort of gut-wrenching interpretation to Deckard and what he must've gone
through in the past three decades."[74] The film grossed $259.3 million worldwide, short of the
estimated $400 million that it needed to break even.[75] In 2019, Ford had his first voice role in an
animated film, as a dog named Rooster in The Secret Life of Pets 2.[76] With filming of a fifth Indiana
Jones film delayed by a year, Ford headlined a big-budget adaptation of Jack London's The Call of
the Wild, playing prospector John Thornton.[77] The film was released in February 2020 to a mixed
critical reception and its theatrical release was shortened due to the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on the film industry.
In 2022, Ford was cast to star alongside Helen Mirren in the Paramount+ western drama
series 1923.[78] The two had previously starred together 36 years earlier in The Mosquito Coast. The
series premiered in December 2022 to positive reviews, and it is set to run for a total of two seasons.
[79][80]
That same year, it was announced that Ford would star in the Apple TV+ comedy drama
series Shrinking.[81] The series premiered in January 2023 to positive reviews, with Ford receiving
praise for his performance.[82] In a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that
he accepted the roles in both 1923 and Shrinking despite there not being a script at the time.[83]
Ford reprised the role of Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), which he
stated was his last appearance as the character.[84] The film received generally positive reviews, with
many critics highlighting Ford's performance.[85] In October 2022, Ford was cast as Thaddeus
"Thunderbolt" Ross in the 2025 superhero films Captain America: Brave New
World and Thunderbolts*, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, replacing William Hurt, who played
the character in previous MCU films.[86]

Personal life

Ford and Calista Flockhart at the 2009 Deauville American

Film Festival
Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. He was
first married to Mary Marquardt from 1964 until their divorce in 1979. They had two sons, born 1966
and 1969. The oldest co-owns Ford's Filling Station, a gastropub located at Terminal 5 in Los
Angeles International Airport.[87] The younger son is the owner of Strong Sports Gym,[88] and was co-
owner of the Kim Sing Theater,[89] as well as owner of the Ludwig Clothing company.[90]
Ford's second marriage was to screenwriter Melissa Mathison from March 1983 until their separation
in 2000;[91] they divorced in 2004.[92] They had a son, born 1987, and a daughter, born 1990. Mathison
died in 2015. Ford began dating actress Calista Flockhart after they met at the 2002 Golden Globe
Awards. He proposed to Flockhart over Valentine's Day weekend in 2009.[93] They married on June
15, 2010, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Ford was filming Cowboys & Aliens.[94] They are the
parents of a son, born 2001, whom Flockhart had adopted before meeting Ford. Ford commented on
his parenting choices in 2023: "I can tell you this: If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better
parent."[95]
Ford and Flockhart live on an 800-acre (320-hectare; 3.2-square-kilometre) ranch in Jackson,
Wyoming, on which he has lived since the 1980s and approximately half of which he has donated as
a nature reserve.[96] They retain a base in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.[97] Ford is one
of Hollywood's most private actors, guarding much of his personal life.[17] In her 2016
autobiography The Princess Diarist, his co-star Carrie Fisher claimed that she and Ford had a three-
month affair in 1976 during the filming of Star Wars.[98]

Aviation

Ford touring the Air Force Museum in Dayton in 2003

Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.[17] On several occasions, he has
personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming, in
one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration.[7]
Ford began flight training in the 1960s at Wild Rose Idlewild Airport in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, flying in
a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer, but at $15 an hour (equivalent to $151 in 2023), he could not afford to
continue the training.[99] In the mid-1990s, he bought a used Gulfstream II and asked one of his pilots,
Terry Bender, to give him flying lessons. They started flying a Cessna 182 out of Jackson, Wyoming,
later switching to Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, flying a Cessna 206, the aircraft in
which he made his first solo flight.[100]

External videos

Ford's Bell 407GX

Ford's aircraft are kept at Santa Monica Airport.[101] The Bell 407 helicopter is often kept and flown in
Jackson and has been used by Ford in two mountain rescues during his assigned duty time
with Teton County Search and Rescue. On one of the rescues, Ford recovered a hiker who had
become lost and disoriented. She boarded his helicopter and promptly vomited into one of the
rescuers' caps, unaware of who the pilot was until much later; "I can't believe I barfed in Harrison
Ford's helicopter!" she said later.[102]
Ford flies his de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (N28S) more than any of his other aircraft, and
has repeatedly said that he likes this aircraft and the sound of its Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial
engine.[103] According to Ford, it had been flown in the CIA's Air America operations and was riddled
with bullet holes that had to be patched up.[104]
 Ford's 2010 International Air & Space Hall of Fame portrait in the Air
& Space Museum in San Diego
In March 2004, Ford officially became chairman of the Experimental Aircraft
Association (EAA)'s Young Eagles program, founded by then-EAA president Tom Poberezny and
fellow actor-pilot Cliff Robertson. Ford was asked to take the position by Greg Anderson, Senior Vice
President of the EAA at the time, to replace General Chuck Yeager, who was vacating the post that
he had held for many years. Ford at first was hesitant, but later accepted the offer and has made
appearances with the Young Eagles at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh gathering at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, for two years. In July 2005, at the gathering in Oshkosh, Ford agreed to accept the
position for another two years. He has flown over 280 children as part of the Young Eagles program,
usually in his DHC-2 Beaver, which can seat the actor and five children. Ford stepped down as
program chairman in 2009 and was replaced by Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff
Skiles. He is involved with the EAA chapter in Driggs, Idaho, just over the Teton Range from
Jackson, Wyoming. On July 28, 2016, Ford flew the two millionth Young Eagle at the EAA
AirVenture convention,[105] making it the most successful aviation-youth introduction program in
history.
As of 2009, Ford appears in Internet advertisements for General Aviation Serves America, a
campaign by the advocacy group Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).[106] He has also
appeared in several independent aviation documentaries, including Wings Over the Rockies (2009),
[107]
Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project (2014), and Living in the Age of
Airplanes (2015).[108]
Ford is an honorary board member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope,[109] and
is known for having made several trips to Washington, D.C., to fight for pilots' rights.[110] He has also
donated substantial funds to aerobatic champion Sean Tucker's charitable program, The Bob
Hoover Academy (named after legendary aviator Bob Hoover), which educates at-risk teens in
central California and teaches them how to fly.[111]
Incidents
On August 22, 1987, Ford was traveling as a passenger with Clint Eastwood and Sondra
Locke aboard a Gulfstream III when the jet experienced engine troubles during a Paris-to-L.A. flight
and was forced to land in Bangor, Maine.[112] After repairs were made, the trio resumed their flight the
following day.[113]
On October 23, 1999, Ford was involved in the crash of a Bell 206L4 LongRanger helicopter.
The NTSB accident report states that Ford was piloting the aircraft over the Lake Piru riverbed
near Santa Clarita, California, on a routine training flight. While making his second attempt at
an autorotation with powered recovery,[114] the aircraft was unable to recover power after the sudden
drop in altitude. It landed hard and began skidding forward in the loose gravel before flipping onto its
side. Neither Ford nor the instructor pilot suffered any injuries, though the helicopter was seriously
damaged.[115]
On March 5, 2015, Ford's plane, believed to be a Ryan PT-22 Recruit, made an emergency landing
on the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California after it lost engine power. He was taken to Ronald
Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was reported to be in fair to moderate condition.[116] Ford
suffered a broken pelvis and broken ankle during the accident, as well as other injuries.[117]
On February 13, 2017, Ford landed an Aviat Husky at John Wayne Airport in Orange County,
California, on the taxiway left of runway 20L. A Boeing 737 was holding short of the runway on the
taxiway when Ford overflew them.[118]
On April 24, 2020, at the Los Angeles Hawthorne Airport while piloting his Husky, Ford crossed a
runway where another aircraft was landing.[119] According to the FAA, the two planes were about
3,600 feet from each other and there was no danger of a crash. A representative of Ford later said
that he "misheard" an instruction given to him by air traffic control.[120]

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