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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ARROW SPORT NC9331

NC9331 was owned by Al Hudgin, who was in the FBO business (FBO=Fixed Base Operator, a company that supplies products and services to pilots) at Davis- Monthan from the late 1920's until just before WWII. Hudgin signed the Register with the airplane on January 31, 1932 on a trip from Clover Field, Santa Monica, CA to Nogales, AZ. He carried Mary Gambee as passenger. She was his wife.

Hudgin was involved in a forced landing with the airplane at Nogales, AZ (ca. 1930) as the following two images show. The engine suffered fuel starvation because of a faulty valve.

Arrow Sport NC9331 After Forced Landing
Arrow Sport NC9331 After Forced Landing

He did a masterful job of setting this airplane down.

Arrow Sport NC9331 After Forced Landing
Arrow Sport NC9133 After Forced Landing

Below, two news clippings describing the accident.

Arrow Sport NC9331 Forced Landing News Clippings
Arrow Sport NC9133 Forced LaArrow Sport NC9331 After Forced Landing News Clippings

Below, the Arrow after it was rebuilt.

Arrow Sport NC9331 Rebuilt
Arrow Sport NC9331

There are 6 people standing in front of the rebuilt airplane. They are from the left: Harry Krowl, Gabe Donadue, Henry Hudgin, Palen Hudgin, Alfred Hudgin, and Homer Tully.

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