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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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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 images of the Collection are presented without touch up or modification, except for squaring margins, sizing and optimizing for web download. Unless otherwise indicated, they were scanned at 200dpi, using a Hewlett-Packard 4370 scanner.

The images are displayed without much technical commentary. Rather, the links will take you to further information, where available.

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THE CHARLES WILLIAM "BILL" GILPIN

IMAGE & DOCUMENT COLLECTION

OF CLARENCE B. GILPIN

Charles W. "Bill" Gilpin was was best known as an early air transport operator based at Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, CA. His company, G&G Gilpin Airlines, flew the route from Los Angeles to San Diego to Agua Caliente in Old Mexico. As a customer courtesy, he stopped at Long Beach or Palm Springs along the way at no extra charge.

Gilpin was called by different nicknames by his family and friends. Depending upon which photograph caption or news reportage you read, his name may be cited as "Carl", "Gil", "Charlie" or "Bill". "Official" documents focused on Charles William, but a "Carl" sneaks in once or twice.

Regardless, Gilpin was a frequent visitor to Tucson (11 landings between 1926 and 1929). He and his airplanes were inspected frequently by the Border Patrol at Tucson, as his business took him into Old Mexico with passengers looking for a good time south of the border during Prohibition.

This small Collection of 50 images, newsclips and documents provides us a vignette of the personal and business life of one of our more entrepreneurial pilots. Note particularly the artifacts, such as the pristine Pickwick Airways baggage sticker and the Ft. Bliss Christmas menus. Take time to examine these unique and important personal records of the Golden Age of Aviation. Enjoy everything!

AIRLINES (10 items) Includes original Pickwick Airways baggage sticker; Gilpin Air Lines brochures and advertisments.

AIRPLANES (9 items) Includes photographs of several airplanes flown by Gilpin.

DOCUMENTS (15 items) Includes originals of G&G Gilpin Airline stationery, tourist permits for Mexican travel and Pickwick Airways letter of recommendation.

OBITUARY (9 items) Includes news items from several local newspapers that document his death in a plane crash in Mexico, Wednesday July 13, 1932.

PEOPLE ( 3 items) Includes candid shot of part of Gilpin family, and C.W. Gilpin in Pickwick Airways uniform.

PLACES ( 4 items) Includes Christmas menus from Ft. Bliss, TX for 1922 and 1924, which list not only the bill of fare, but all the personnel based there at the time.

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