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OTHER RESOURCES
THANK YOU!
YOUR PURCHASE OF THESE BOOKS SUPPORTS THE WEB SITES THAT BRING TO YOU THE HISTORY BEHIND OLD AIRFIELD REGISTERS
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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 The 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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LOS ANGELES AREA AIRPORTS
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WORKING ON THIS, PLEASE HAVE PATIENCE
A MAJOR FOCUS FOR WEST COAST AVIATION
Los Angeles was a genuine hub of aviation activity during
the Golden Age of Flight. Among the factors which focused aviation in
Los Angeles were: the juxtaposition of aircraft manufacturers,
the motion picture industry, a growing population wealthy
enough to embrace aviation as a hobby or efficient means of
business transportation, and good weather.
In the database
that drives this website, there are over 1,000 visits to the
Davis-Monthan Airfield that list the Los Angeles area as Homebase.
When you choose one of those locations, either from Homebase,
Arrived From or Destination menus, you will be linked to this
page. I want to build this page to include all the small airports
in the Los Angeles area during the Golden Age. If you have
information or photographs that might help me do this, please
use this FORM
to communicate with me. Try this link
to see some really great information and images of Los Angeles
airports.
LOS ANGELES AREA AIRPORTS
The table below lists many of the Los Angeles
area airports that were cited by pilots during the period
of the Davis-Monthan Airfield register (1925-1936). Click
the red links to see what I know.
I'm looking for photographs and information on all the Los
Angeles area airfields, including the ones tabulated above.
Please use this FORM
to share what you know.
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UPLOADED: 5/6/05 UPDATED 08/22/05, 12/04/09, 12/20/10
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ANGELES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION WAS MORE THAN JUST ONE AIRPORT |
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Davis-Monthan pilots arriving from or going to the Los Angeles
area may have been traveling to one or more of several Golden Age
airports in that area.
Mines Field (now LAX), LA Metro (now Van Nuys), Burbank (now Bob
Hope Airport), Clover Field (now Santa Monica Municipal), Fullerton,
Glendale, Griffith Park, Hollywood, Irvine, Long Beach, Santa
Barbara, and Burnley Field were a few.
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Excellent resources, and the source of many
of the photos and descriptions you see in the links from this page, are books
titled:
Standard Oil Company of California. 1931. Landing Fields of the Pacific West. 5th Ed. Published May 15, 1931. Book donated to the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Library by David Pitcairn, 2010.
Airports and Established Landing Fields in the
United States, 1933. I picked up my copy at a library
sale a couple of years ago. It wasn't cheap, but the information
is great for this site.
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Air Commerce. January 1, 1937. Descriptions of Airports and Landing Fields in the United States. Airway Bulletin No. 2. U.S. Govt. Printing Office. Washington, DC. 222 pp. Donated to the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Library by Tim Kalina, 2008.
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AOPA Pilot magazine published a nice summary
of Metro's history in the September, 2004 issue. The article
described a new film being made about that history, and it
mentions several of our Davis-Monthan pilots (Frank Hawks, Pancho
Barnes, Bobbi
Trout, Amelia Earhart and Wallace Beery. This link tells more about the film.
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