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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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 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ELMIRA, NY
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This link leads to a postal cachet dated June 30, 1928, supposedly at the dedication of the Elmira Airport.
Below, from this REFERENCE, is the descriptive data for the airfield from the Department of Commerce facility directory for 1937.
Department of Commerce, 1937, Airport Description
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Curiously, this quote from this site states the airport was established in 1938. The authors of this piece must have meant 1928.
"The Corning-Elmira Airport (Chemung County Airport) located in Big Flats began in 1938 with American Airlines. It consisted of parts of the Juda Rowley, George Shriver, and Judson Gardner farms.
E. R. Wolcott, Sr., rented all the farm plows he could find and plowed the land for three days. A Williamsport outfit with gasoline driven #60 Caterpiller tractors pulled iron wheel scrapers hooked in tandem. A man rode the scrapers to load and dump and would change two or three times to each one hooked in tandem. The Saltzman Blacksmith shop of Elmira built a leveling device of a long timber with an iron shoe on the front. Behind this was a tilting device to dig or not to dig, a hand wheel moved it up or down, and the Airport was begun." |
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Two pilots, flying the same airplane, identified Elmira, NY as their home base, Alfred H. Stanley and R. Haynes. They both flew Waco GXE NC4856 (S/N 1417 mfg 1928) to Tucson during September 1928. Stanley flew the westbound leg on Sunday, September 9th, and Haynes flew eastbound on Thursday, September 20th.
On behalf of the Stanley Airways Co., they were competing in the 1928 National Air Races. The 1929 Aircraft Yearbook cites them placing 16th (35:48:31) in the Class A event, which ran from New York to Los Angeles, CA.
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THIS PAGE UPLOADED: 10/25/08 REVISED: 12/19/22
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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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