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OTHER RESOURCES
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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 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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
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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CHALLENGER NC5624
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Registration Number NC5624
Misidentified and Mistreated Southern
Belle
This aircraft is a Kreider-Reisner Challenger, S/N 164 (ATC
19). The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co., Hagerstown, MD manufactured
it in May 1928. It was equipped with a 90 HP Curtiss OX-5
engine, S/N 2038. It weighed 2,000 pounds.
NC5624 was sold for $3,145 (less 15%) on August 30, 1928 to A.H. Kreider and the Challenger
Flying Service, Inc., Hagerstown, MD (Kreider was president
of this organization, perhaps explaining the 15% discount).
A.H. Kreider flew NC5624 his new airplane to Tucson September 20, 1928. He arrived
from Los Angeles and departed for El Paso the same day. He
carried no passengers.
Curiously, according to the record, this airplane was exchanged
on March 13, 1929 for another Challenger described as S/N 156, NC5358,
owned by John H. Wright of Utica, NY. I say curious, because
on page
42 of the Register, you'll notice NC5358 is listed as
a Fokker F-10. I also have a copy of the NASM record for 5358
and, sure enough, it’s a Fokker. Perhaps there was an
error in transcription of the record for 5624? From an era
of pencil and paper record keeping, you’ll have that
sometimes.
Anyway, on April 30, 1929, the airplane was purchased by Salvatore
M. Curioni of Jacksonville, FL. Over the next eight years
it exchanged hands ten times, living mostly through Georgia
and the Carolinas. Along the way, in 1931, it was disapproved
for flight, the inspector stating that the airplane was, “completely
run down and shows no care or attention whatever.”
It ended its life in Lancaster, SC in the hands of James
McMurray. With no information forthcoming from the owner,
the registration was cancelled on May 13, 1938.
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OTHER 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. 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
Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build
a business around his passion. Available as a free download at the link.
---o0o---
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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