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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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 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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KLEIN ARCHIVE
U.S. MARINE CORPS AIRCRAFT
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There are three images of two aircraft from the Klein Archive
that were of airplanes flown by the U.S. Marine Corps. This
represents less than 10% of all the Marine Corps aircraft
that landed at Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It was indeed
a fairly rare occurence for a Marine Corps aircraft to land
at the old Airfield.
Below,
A-7204 is identified in the Register as a Douglas O-2C. The
annotation on the Klein Archive image identifies it as an
OD-1. It had a 12-cylinder Liberty engine of 400 HP. This
image was taken at San Diego, CA during 1930.
Douglas O-2C, A-7204
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A-7204 was flown to Tucson 12/15/1926 by Marine Corps Sgt.
Charles V. Frith. He carried a passenger identified as Sgt.
Taylor. They were westbound from Lordsburg, NM to San Diego,
CA where they were based. In the Remarks section of the Register,
Frith noted "Transcontinental flight".
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Below is a Curtiss R4C-1 Condor II. It had two Wright R-1820-12
engines of 700HP each. This image was taken in 1936. A-9584 landed once at Tucson, Saturday, April 27, 1935 at 11:10AM. It was flown by Lt. E.E. Neale carrying three unidentified passengers. Based at Washington, DC Anacostia, they were westbound from El Paso, TX to San Diego, CA.
Curtiss Condor, A-9584
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A-9584
is an important airplane for a couple of reasons. First,
its type was a rare visitor to the Airfield. Condors landed
only 32 times, and A-9584 is the only Navy or Marine Corps
example to visit Tucson. Little wonder, since this airplane
is only 1 of 2 that were used by the Marines. Below, another
image of A-9584.
Curtiss Condor, A-9584
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The second reason for its importance is that A-9584 was
used on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1940-41. This same
image appeared in Skyways #83
July 2007, p. 15 (See REFERENCES).
There are a few more images in Skyways showing the A-9584
aloft, and in the Antarctic snows with skis. This airplane
was abandoned in Antarctica and, it is believed, remains
buried under almost 70 years of accumulated snow and ice.
It may be a challenging time capsule for a future recovery
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CREDITS FOR OUR USE OF THE KLEIN ARCHIVE OF AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHS
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Warmest thanks are extended to BRUCE KLEIN, Owner
of Bernie's
Photo Center, Pittsburgh, PA. His foresight in acquiring image
collections on various topics has significantly enhanced our understanding
of people and aircraft of the Davis-Monthan Register. His warm
and solicitous hospitality was much appreciated as I scanned and
organized the images presented for the first time on this website.
And to the staff of the Photo
Antiquities Museum of Photographic History, Pittsburgh, PA:
FRANK WATTERS, Executive Director of the Museum,
whose enthusiasm for our work with the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register
grew consistently as we worked with the volumes of images.
SCOTT YOSS, Senior Curator of the Museum, whose
anecdotes and knowledge of photography and the graphic arts were
much appreciated.
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