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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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http://www.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifThe Congress of Ghosts is an anniversary celebration for 2010.  It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.

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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register, 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.

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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build a business around his passion.  Available as a free download at the link.

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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race is available at the link. What was it like to fly from Oakland to Honolulu in a single-engine plane during August 1927? Was the 25,000 dollar prize worth it? Did the resulting fame balance the risk? For the first time ever, this book presents the pilot and navigator's stories written by them within days of their record-setting adventure. Pilot Art Goebel and navigator William V. Davis, Jr. take us with them on the Woolaroc, their orange and blue Travel Air monoplane (NX869) as they enter the hazardous world of Golden Age trans-oceanic air racing.

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Clover Field: The First Century of Aviation in the Golden State. With the 100th anniversary in 2017 of the use of Clover Field as a place to land aircraft in Santa Monica, this book celebrates that use by exploring some of the people and aircraft that made the airport great.

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C.W. Gilpin is cited on pp. 125 & 203 in Ruth M. Reinhold's 1982 book entitled, "Sky Pioneering: Arizona in Aviation History" (University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ISBN 0-8165-0737-6). Refer to pages 125 and 203 et seq. for information about Mr. Gilpin.

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THE CHARLES W. "BILL" GILPIN

IMAGE & DOCUMENT COLLECTION:

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Below, part of the Gilpin family posed at Ajo, AZ in front of the Bach NC8069 they called their "trusty steed". The gentleman in the fedora is Charles S. Gilpin, the family patriarch. Next to him is Mrs. Charles W. "Bill" Gilpin. The rest of the people, including the infant, are not part of the Gilpin family. The date is April 13, 1930.

Part of the Gilpin Family With Bach NC8069
Part of the Gilpin Family With Bach NC8069

The inscription on the back of this photograph appears to be in Gilpin's own handwriting (it's a close match with his signatures in the Register). He was proud of the Bach.

Part of the Gilpin Family With Bach NC8069, Back
Part of the Gilpin Family With Bach NC8069, Back

Below, C.W. Gilpin in his Picwick Airways uniform.

C.W. Gilpin, Pickwick Airways Uniform, ca. 1929-30
C.W. Gilpin, Pickwick Airways Uniform, ca. 1929-30

Bill Gilpin had two brothers, Frank who was a minister in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Lionel B. Gilpin (Collection donor Clarence B. Gilpin's dad). Lionel worked for some time for the Road Department of Pima County, AZ. He worked later as Deputy Sheriff  (badge # Y6) in Yavapai County, AZ until his death. He was a resident of Paulden, AZ for most of his adult life.

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