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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1931 (Source: Webmaster)
Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1931 (Source: Webmaster)

 

In so many words, Albuquerque had two airports during the Golden Age. This is reflected, at right, in the 1931 descriptions of the facilities from this REFERENCE, page 11. Number (1) was developed as a civil airfield in the mid-1920s. It was also called Oxnard Field.

Number (2) followed when Western Air Express developed their own field, ca. late-1920s. Both fields persist to this day, with (1) being the approximate site of the present Kirtland AFB, and (2) becaming the Albuquerque International Sunport.

The Davis-Monthan Airfield Register didn't see many pilots from Albuquerque (right sidebar). All but one were civilian pilots. The best low altitude route to or from Albuquerque is sort of a southeast semi-circle from Tucson, AZ to Lordsburg, Truth Or Consequences, Silver City, Socorro and on up to Albuquerque, NM. It was probably not a favorite route of Golden Age pilots. Your Webmaster has flown that route and there are still some serious "hills" to watch out for.

The other route, from Albuquerque direct to Phoenix and then south to Tucson gets into high mountains (flight required above 12,000') between Albuquerque and Phoenix.

 

 

Below, from this REFERENCE, page 152, is a view of Oxnard Field described in section (1), above. Services and amenities were exemplary for the time. Note the change in managment. In 1931 the airport was owned and operated by Albuquerque Airport, Inc. In 1933 it was operated by Aircraft Holdings, Inc. Interestingly, airport manager Frank Speakman wrote a book entitled, "History of the Albuquerque Airport, 1928 to 1942" with the editorial assistance of Frederic C. Alexander, Jr. It was published at Albuquerque in 1965. There is no machine-readable version available. Speakman has a modest Web presence.

 

 

Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1933 (Source: Webmaster)
Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1933 (Source: Webmaster)

Pilots whose home base was Albuquerque included in 1935 one Arthur Pack and his wife flying Fairchild NC14321. The Arthur Pack Municipal Golf Course in Tucson is named after him. Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), is a low aerial photograph of what is probably the TWA field after it was developed. The SDAM information offered for this photograph states, "From an album (AL-70) donated to the museum by Albert Hobart, who flew for Western Air Express and worked at Burdett Airport." Hobart is a Register pilot who signed our Peterson Field Register October 10, 1931. Note the trimotor liner being fueled at lower left.

Albuquerque, NM TWA Field, Date Unknown (Source: SDAM)

Another photo from the SDAM Hobart album is below. This one is closer to the action, but shows the trimotor, the fuel truck driving away and a Fokker Super Universal at left. Note that Hobart identified the the photo as "W.A.E. Airport," referring to Western Air Express. WAS was merged into TWA. The people on the ground appear to watch as the photo plane flys past at low altitude.

Albuquerque, NM TWA Field, Date Unknown (Source: SDAM)
Albuquerque, NM TWA Field, Date Unknown (Source: SDAM)

Below, from this REFERENCE, page 127 is the description of the two landing sites for 1937. Note, for (1) the addition of a Department of Commerce radio station and a radio range station.

Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1937 (Source: Webmaster)
Albuquerque, NM Airfield, Ca 1933 (Source: Webmaster)

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Four Register pilots identified Albuquerque as their home base. Two arrived at Tucson from Albuquerque, and three identified it as their destination.

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Your Webmaster owns a copy of the Oxnard Field Register. It contains 2,059 records of pilot landings. It has not been crafted into a Web site yet.

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