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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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Vintage Aviation. March, 2004.

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FLEET NC788V

This airplane is a Model 7 Fleet, NC788V, manufactured in 1929 in Buffalo, NY by Ruben Fleet's company. It landed at Tucson once between September 29th and October 1, 1931 Its pilot, Paul A. Berry did not cite the exact date of his visit.

The lovely and simple NC788V is flying today. An article that appeared in the March, 2004 issue of "Vintage Aviation" published by the Experimental Aircraft Association. The article describes this airplane and its restoration to flying status. The image below is from that article.

NC788V Today

NC788V was powered by a 125HP Kinner B-5R engine. The airplane was used by the Army to determine if Fleet Model 7s were suitable for the military aerobatic program. Further, NC788V flew in the Civilian Pilot Training program during WWII at Roosevelt Field in New York, and in 1950 was towing banners in Florida. Unfortunately, I know nothing about the time it was being flown by pilot Berry.

Berry and NC788V also landed once at the Oakland Airport, September 19, 1931 at 9:20AM, Clover Field on an unidentified date, and twice at the Grand Central Air Terminal during 1931.

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