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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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METEOR MODEL RKM1 NX848E

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Meteor model RKM1 NX848E was manufactured during 1929 as S/N 2. It was made by Jess Clark & Delmer Wood, known as Clark & Wood, of 807 W. Noble Ave., Visalia, CA. The airplane was known as a Meteor. It left the factory with a 100HP Kinner engine (S/N K-333). Its experimental license was applied for under application A-8138. It was a two-place airplane. It was sold initially to Gene Tedford of Minneola, KS.

Our airplane landed once at Tucson on May 16, 1931. Pilot Ken Baetz carried one passenger, Jack Byrd. They were eastbound from Yuma, AZ to Wichita, KS.

The image below is on page 54 of John Underwood's "Madcaps, Millionaires and 'Mose.'" Another photograph of NX848E dated 1928 is at the link. Thanks to Guest Editor Bob Woodling for finding that image.

Meteor NX848E, 1930
Meteor NX848E, 1930

There is no data on this airplane at the Smithsonian. The FAA destroyed the records it kept for this airplane in 1978.

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