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This information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC.

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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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http://www.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifThe 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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The definitive reference for early Lockheed aircraft is:

Allen, Richard S. 1988. Revolution in the Sky: The Lockheeds of Aviation's Golden Age. Orion Books, NY. 253 pp.

 
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LOCKHEED VEGA Model 5B NC536M

LOCKHEED VEGA Model 5B NC536M

A SHORT LIFE ENDED BY FIRE

This airplane is a Lockheed Vega Model 5B (S/N 105; ATC #227) manufactured during October 1929 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA.  It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine (S/N 2007) of unspecified HP.  It was a seven-place airplane.

Lockheed Vega NC536M, Burbank, CA, Circa October 1929
Lockheed Vega NC536M, Burbank, CA, Circa October 1929

Note the tail dolly (the two spoked wheels at left) used to maneuver these big Vegas, which had tail skids, on the ground. The airplane behind NC536M has "STANAVO" written on the fuselage. The registration number of that airplane is not visible, but it is probably NC106N (not a Register airplane). Stanavo had a few Vegas in its stable, two of which, NC7440 and NC105N landed at Tucson.

NC536M sold on October 31, 1929 to Asa Candler, Jr., Atlanta, GA (see also NC49M for interesting information about owner Candler).  According to the Davis-Monthan Register, NC536M landed at Tucson on 11/21/1929 flown by Herbert J. “Hub” Fahey.  Fahey was a Lockheed factory test pilot.  He carried a single passenger, his wife Claire Fahey, who was herself a pilot and air racer.  They were southeastbound from Burbank, CA to Atlanta, GA.  This could very well be the ferry flight of this brand new airplane to its owner.

Alas, the airplane lived only another four months.  It was destroyed in a hangar fire at the Municipal airport, Atlanta, on March 4, 1930.

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UPLOADED: 06/06/06 REVISED: 07/30/08

 
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