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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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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
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CURTISS B-2 CONDOR, 29-36
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Curtiss 29-36 visited Tucson once, on Saturday, November 11, 1933 at 11:10AM. It was flown by Lt. L.J. (Laurel Jesse) Gephart ("Gep"). He listed no passenger names, but chances are good that he carried some in this large aircraft. Based at Riverside, CA March Field, he arrived at Tucson from Riverside. He departed for Ft. Defiance, AZ, probably the same day.
This airplane entered the Air Corps inventory on January 4, 1930. Curtiss 29-36 is pictured below from the link. You can read the registration number on the fuselage.
Curtiss 29-36 lived about 6.5 years. The fate of 29-36 was quoted at Joe Baugher's site as follows.
| “DELIVERED 1/4/30. With 11th Bombardment Squadron, en route from Dayton, Ohio, to March Field, California suffered failure of one engine and was forced down two miles SE of Abilene, Texas Jun 1, 1933. The pilot was attempting to reach the Abilene airport after one of the ship's motors had cut out. The bomber lost altitude rapidly, however, and in a forced landing the right wing was clipped by a wire. A power line fell across a barbed wire fence, charging it, and a workman, running toward the plane, was slightly burned. Crew of 5 uninjured. The damaged bomber was dismantled and shipped to California. SURVEYED 7/22/36, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS” |
It must have been repaired and later flown through Tucson by Gephart about five months after the forced landing described above.
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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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