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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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RUTH ELDER
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Ruth Elder landed and signed the Parks Airport Register twice. Her first visit was on Saturday, August 3, 1929. She flew the Swallow she identified as NC8730. She left no hint of the purpose of her visit or if she was carrying passengers. She was eastbound from Santa Monica, CA to Kansas City, MO. Photograph, right, courtesy of site contributor Andy Heins.
Her second visit was August 24, 1929. This time we know the purpose of her landing. She was competing in the Women's Derby of the 1929 National Air Races (NAR). She identified her airplane as a Swallow, but did not cite a registration number. Chances are high that it was NC8730. She placed 5th in the class A event of the Derby.
Besides her two visits at Parks Airport, Elder landed once at Tucson and signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Wednesday, August 7, 1929. This time she carried as her sole passenger James E. Granger. Their itinerary was westbound from El Paso, TX to Santa Monica, CA. The juxtaposition of the dates of her signatures in both Registers, and her directions of flight, suggest she flew to Kansas City to pick up Mr. Granger, then returned to Santa Monica via Tucson and Phoenix, AZ in time for the Women's Derby later in the month.
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The photograph of Ruth Elder, left, from ca. 1934, is at the link, courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection (BPL).
Ruth Elder was a movie actress, fashion model and aviation adventurer. She was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She earned what was then a fortune (about $250,000) from personal appearances and two movies.
Ruth Elder's full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Register Web Site at the link. Please direct your browser to her link to find additonal photographs, two video links showing her flying and demonstrating women's fashions, and downloads. She was a charter member of The Ninety-Nines. She was born September 8, 1902 at Anniston, AL and died October 9, 1977 at home in San Francisco, CA. She carried Private pilot certificate P675.
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