OTHER RESOURCES
Some of 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 (NASM), Washington, DC.
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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. 375 pages with black & white photographs and extensive tables
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The Congress of Ghosts (available as eBook) 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 (available as eBook) 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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Clover Field: The first Century of Aviation in the Golden State (available in paperback) 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. 281 pages, black & white photographs.
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FOKKER SUPER UNIVERSAL NC9131
This airplane is a Fokker Super Universal, S/N 849. It was manufactured ca. May, 1929 by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America, Teterboro, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ. It left the factory powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine of 450HP (S/N 1432). It sold on May 14, 1929 to Universal Aviatio Corporation, St. Louis, MO.
Universal sold it to Southern Air Transport Flying Service, Inc. (SAT) on April 29, 1930. It is during its tenure with SAT that we find it landing at Parks Airport. It appears in the Register on Friday, August 16, 1929 at 12:20PM. It was flown by E.L. "Slonny" Sloniger, who cited his destination as New York, NY.
A year later, according to information I reviewed at the Smithsonian, it was "partially disassembled and in storage as of 5/28/31." On June 27, 1931, it was sold to Southern Transcontinental Airways, Inc. of Dallas, TX. On September 15, 1931, it was sold to American Airways, Inc. of Dallas. It suffered an accident at Waco, TX, date unknown, but prior to June 17, 1932. As of December 29, 1932 it was stored at Waco partially disassembled and with no landing gear.
On July 10, 1933, in rebuilt condition, NC9131 was sold to D.M. Heywood of Daytona Beach, FL. U.S. Customs in Jacksonville, FL was interested in this airplane. Owner Heywood was believed to be a bootlegger or smuggler. All correspondences with him were returned unanswered. NC9131 was destroyed by fire in Florida on October 9, 1933.
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