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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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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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FAIRCHILD MODEL 17 NC9734

GONE TO UNCLE SAM

This airplane is a Fairchild 17 (S/N 605; ATC #89) manufactured in December 1928 by the Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Corporation, Farmingdale, LI, NY. It came from the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine of 410HP (S/N 983). It was a seven-place airplane which could fly on floats or wheels. It weighed 5,500 pounds.

NC9734 sold on January 25, 1929 to Lionel T. Barneson of Los Angeles, CA (petroleum business; J.E. Elliott, partner) for $18, 400. It was shipped to California by ocean steam ship "S.S. Dakotan".

NC9734 landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield twice. The first time, on March 18, 1929, it was piloted by Pat Farris and carried five passengers, including Mr. Elliott. They were eastbound from Los Angeles to Ft. Worth, TX. The second landing, also piloted by Farris, was on May 9, 1929. On this flight he carried his wife and Mr. Barneson. They were northwest bound from El Paso, TX to Phoenix, AZ.

General Petroleum Corporation of California bought the airplane on June 21, 1929 (Barneson was president of this company). Then the Great Depression kicked in. It sold thirteen times between 1931 and 1938, moving around from California to Portland, OR to Salt Lake City, UT to Austin, TX.

On April 7, 1938 it sold to Robert Coltharp operating as Southwestern Aerial Surveys in Austin, TX. On October 9, 1938 it suffered an accident at Boulder City, NV, which cracked the left rear spar and damaged fairings, fuselage and tail surfaces.

It continued to fly with Southwestern until August 10, 1942 when it was purchased by the Defense Supplies Corporation, Washington, DC. They, in turn, sold it to the War Department on October 29, 1942 and it was flown under Army auspices after that. No further information on the final disposition of NC9734. It, or its remains, are not registered with the FAA.

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