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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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TRAVEL AIR D-4000 NC477N
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This airplane is a Travel Air model D-4000, S/N 1379. It landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, on Sunday, February 23, 1936 at 12:00PM. It was flown solo by Ray W. Murrell. Based at Pomona, CA, he arrived at Tucson from Globe, AZ. He did not cite a destination. Murrell owned the airplane, having purchased the five-year old plane on March 4, 1935.
The good news is that this airplane still exists and is flying. As of the upload date of this Web page, NC477N is newly owned by the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, ME. An excellent photograph of NC477N taken in 2005 is at the link. Another photograph from September 30, 2012 is at the link.
NC477N landed earlier, on July 26, 1930, at Santa Monica, CA. A more complete technography with other photographs and information, is online at the Clover Field Register Web site at the link. A treatise on Travel Air NC477N was written by pilot Murrell's nephew and is available as a PDF download (125Kb) at the link.
On September 1, 2019 I visited with NC477N, below, on a beautiful day in Owls Head.
Travel Air NC477N, September 1, 2019, Maine (Source: Webmaster)
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Travel Air NC477N, September 1, 2019, Maine (Source: Webmaster)
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THIS PAGE UPLOADED: 11/21/13 REVISED: 09/12/15, 09/28/19
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Thanks to Robert Murrell, Ray Murrell's nephew, for sharing information about his uncle's airplane.
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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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