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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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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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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 1 NC7428

LOCKHEED VEGA Model 1 NC7428

CALIFORNIA TO OKLAHOMA AND BACK

This airplane is a Lockheed Vega Model 1 (S/N 16; ATC #49) manufactured September 29, 1928 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA.  It left the factory with a Wright Whirlwind J-5 engine (S/N 9189) of 220 HP.  It was a five-place airplane weighing 2,900 pounds.

It sold on December 14, 1928 to Continental Air Express, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.  It was sold through Lockheed distributor Harry Sperl Aero Corporation, Los Angeles (image, below, from R.S. Allen page 114). The airplane was flying on the Los Angeles – Taft – Bakersfield – San Francisco – Coalinga – Fresno routes of Continental Air Express in April and May 1929. The only thing faster than the airplane was the speed at which Continental went bankrupt.

NC7428 ca. 1928-29

NC7428, above, in Continental livery, was repossessed on December 3, 1930 by Pacific Finance Corporation, Los Angeles, CA.  They repossessed another Register airplane that same day, our NC8015.  Pacific Finance sold 7428 to Margaret Bromley (Mrs. Harold A. Bromley) on February 25, 1931.  It sold three more times over the next three years until if came to rest with Braniff Airways, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK on January 18, 1934.  It was converted to an air liner, with a speed ring half-cowl.

Eighteen months later, on July 3, 1935, NC7428 was sold to A. Paul Mantz, United air Services, Ltd., Burbank, CA.  Mantz’ organization was formed on July 3, 1935 with former Lockheed test pilot Marshall Headle involved in the organization, too.  Headle signed our Register three times flying Lockheed aircraft. The airplane now had Wright J-5 engine S/N B9189 installed.

We find NC7428 at Tucson on July 7, 1935 flown solo by Charles A. Rector (signed our Register twice).  Based in Los Angeles, CA, he was westbound from Dallas, TX to Los Angeles.  Rector was probably hired for this ferry flight to the west coast from its previous home in Oklahoma.

Alas, six-months later the airplane suffered an accident at Nogales, AZ on February 17, 1936 and was “washed out”.  No further information.

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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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