Aerobatics!

View products that support dmairfield.org

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.

---o0o---

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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-0-1.

---o0o---

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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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, or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author.  ISBN 978-0-9843074-4-9.

---o0o---
 
Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register
CulturalMotion PicturesFriendsNon Profit statusProducts and services
ReferencesPublicationsCollectionsGuest EditorsPress Coverage

FORD 4-AT NC7582

FORD 4-AT NC7582

TO MEXICO AND BACK

This airplane is a Ford 4-AT tri-motor (S/N 4-AT-36; ATC # 132) manufactured August 8, 1928 by the Stout Metal Airplane Company (Division of Ford Motor Company), Dearborn, MI.  It came from the factory with three Wright J-5 engines (S/Ns 9117, 9125, 9130) of 220 HP each.

It sold on August 25, 1928 to Maddux Air Lines, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.  There is a gap in the record here, although it appears that Maddux flew it until 1931.  We find NC7582 at Tucson on December 3, 1928 flown by Larry G. Fritz, Chief Pilot for Maddux Air Lines.  He carried eight passengers, including S. Wilkinson as copilot.  They were northwest bound from Mexico City, Mexico to Los Angeles, CA. See an image of this airplane here as it appeared in Maddux Air Lines livery.

Below is another photograph of NC7582 in Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT)/Maddux livery. TAT was a precursor of T.W.A. as was Maddux. The date of this photograph is 1930. The location is Grand Central AIr Terminal, Glendale, CA.

Ford NC7582, February 14, 1930 (Source: HDL)
Ford NC7582, February 14, 1930 (Source: HDL)

On April 21, 1931, the airplane was sold to Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. (T.W.A.), Wilmington, DE, who flew it for two years.

On May 5, 1933 it sold for the last time to Pan American Aviation Supply Corp., New York, NY and leased to Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion (CNCA).  The U.S. file for the airplane was canceled on November 15, 1934, because NC7582, “probably went under Cuban registration”.  The image, below, shows NC7582 in CNCA fuselage livery, but it still wears the U.S. registration number on the wing and vertical stabilizer. It's reasonable to guess the photograph was probably taken sometime late in 1934 to 1935 during its transition to Cuban registration.

Ford NC7582, Post-1934 (?), Location Unknown
Ford NC7582, Post-1934

Please note the copyright on this image. It is used with permission of the owner of the Web site where it appears. You may want to browse this www.oldairplanepictures.com to examine many other aircraft images, civilian, commercial and military.

---o0o---

UPLOADED: 04/01/06 REVISED: 02/02/08, 02/05/08, 01/26/16
 
Home
The Register
People
Places
Airplanes
Events
YOU CAN HELP
I'm looking for additional photographs of this airplane to include on this page. If you have one or more you'd like to share, please use this FORM to contact me.

Thanks to Lee Sherry of
www.oldairplanepictures.com for use of the image at left.

---o0o---

OTHER BOOKS FOR YOU

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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-2-5.

---o0o---

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.  Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. ISBN 978-0-9843074-1-8.

---o0o---

Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race is available at the link. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. 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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-3-2.

---o0o---

 

 
Contact Us | Credits | Copyright © 2008 Delta Mike Airfield, Inc.
This website is best enjoyed in a 1024 x 768 screen resolution.
Web design by The Web Professional, Inc