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OTHER RESOURCES
BOOKS FOR YOU
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. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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 The Congress of Ghosts is available as an e-book at the link. It 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 a 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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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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BOEING FB-1 A-6890
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I don't have specific information about this airplane. A-6890 was a Boeing FB-1 flown by the Marine Corps. Joe Baugher's site identifies it as one of a series of Bureau numbers A-6884 through A-6893. It is probably serial number 744. Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), is a rear quarter, port profile of A-6890.
Boeing FB-1, A-6890, Date & Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)
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A-6890 landed twice at Tucson. The first landing was on Tuesday, December 14, 1926 at 4:30PM. The solo pilot was Lieutenant W.L. McKittrick. Based at Quantico, VA, he was westbound from El Paso, TX to San Diego, CA. He remained in Tucson overnight, departing to San Diego the next day at 12:45PM. No reason was given for his trip.
The second landing was on Wednesday, August 21, 1929 at 5:45PM. The solo pilot was M.S. Boggs. Based at Washington, DC, he was eastbound from San Diego, CA to El Paso, TX. He noted in the remarks column of the Register, "Dept. [of] Commerce." He remained overnight at Tucson, departing the next day at an uspecified time. He appeared to be part of a flight of three FB-1s, A-6891 and A-6885. All were based at Washington, DC and were headed east on the 22nd. All cited "Department of Commerce" in the remarks column of the Register.
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THIS PAGE UPLOADED: 12/19/14 REVISED: 11/13/17
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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 as an e-book 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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