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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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-0-1.
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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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, or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. ISBN 978-0-9843074-4-9.
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The same image is exhibited at the Klein
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26-371 BOEING PW-9C
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Based
at Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX, this airplane landed at
Tucson three times. The first landing was on September 14, 1927 piloted
solo by Lt. W.A. Maxwell. He was on a long cross-country
trip from Marfa, TX to Spokane, WA. Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), the Boeing PW-9C with AAC number 26-371.
26-371 Boeing PW-9C, ca. 1927 (Source: SDAM)
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The second visit was on July 11, 1929 flown by Major A.L.
Lund. Based in San
Diego, CA this time, Lund was on his way from Yuma, AZ to El Paso, TX.
The third landing took place about a week later on July
19, 1929. The pilot was again Major Lund returning from El
Paso to San Diego (Rockwell Field).
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UPLOADED: 09/30/07 REVISED: 01/08/15
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OTHER BOOKS FOR YOU
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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-2-5.
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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race is available at the link. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. 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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-3-2.
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