John Corkille signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register once on Wednesday, January 5, 1930. He was flying an army Boeing P-12-B, 29-329. He was based at Dayton, OH, Wright Field and cited his itinerary as arriving eastbound from Seattle, WA to Dallas, TX. He remained overnight in Tucson and departed next morning at 9:30AM. He did not list a reason for his flight, but it could have been delivery of his airplane from the Boeing factory in Seattle. Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), is an undated photograph of Corkille.
John Corkville, Date Unknown (Source: SDAM)
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The photograph above was doctored (notice the light pigment near his shoulders) and cropped, probably for a formal ID portrait of some kind. Image, below, shows Corkille sitting at lower right. This informal portrait, below, from the NASM, is captioned, " ...Wright Field test pilots. Left to right, front: Capt. Street [sic, it should be Streete], Lt. Harrison G. 'Scotty' Crocker, Lt. John D. Corkille. Back" Capt. Moffat, Lt. Parker, Lt. Beery. In front of the group is a small trophy labeled Trophy 1931." There is a Lt. L.L. Beery signed in the Register in 1927. There is no clue as to whether he is Lt. Beery in this photograph.
John Corkille, Front Row, Right, 1931
(Source: NASM)
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Below, from SDAM, is another informal portrait, date and location unknown.
John D. Corkille, Date & Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)
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J.D. Corkille, Popular Aviation, August, 1930
(Source: PA)
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J.D. Corkille, Date Unknown (Source: NASM)
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At left is an article from Popular Aviation magazine (PA) from August, 1930 that describes Corkille's harrowing experience with fire in the cockpit. This forced landing probably occurred only months after his visit at Tucson.
According to Joe Baugher's site, Army aircraft numbers 29-329 to 341 were Boeing P-12Bs, c/n 1170 to 1182. He cites 29-329 as converted to XP-12G configuration, but later reverted to B configuration. Although there are no dates given for this remodeling, this could be a post-conversion flight from the factory by pilot Corkille.
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UPLOADED: 02/04/09 REVISED: 06/17/14, 11/26/14, 04/24/17
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