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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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There is no biographical file for pilot Ong in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.

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WILLIAM ARMITAGE ONG

William Ong and Inland Sport, 1929 (Source: KCPL)

 

There is no biographical file (left sidebar) for William A. Ong at the Smithsonian. This is unusual, given his enrollment and participation in most categories of Golden Age aviation. He learned to fly at Kansas City, MO in 1927 and carried Commercial pilot certificate No. 1904. He was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve. At right, from the Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri (KCPL) is a photograph of Ong at age 27 when he worked for Inland Aviation Co. (see below).

Bill Ong landed once at East St. Louis, on Thursday, July 18, 1929 at 5:50PM. He flew the Great Lakes 2T1 he identified as NC844H. Based at Kansas City, MO, he identified his final destination as St. Louis. This could have been a delivery flight for the airplane.

Ong had his hands in many endeavors from air racing to flight training to air transport, aircraft sales and real estate development. From 1927-28 he was vice president of Beacon Airways of America. He was sales manager for Inland Aviation Co. from 1928-29, for Rearwin Airplane Co. 1929-34 and Waco Aircraft Co. 1934-35. He was general sales manager for Beech Aircraft Corp. from 1935-37. In 1937 he founded Ong Aircraft Corporation and Ong Flying Schools.

Bill Ong has a fair Web presence, mostly involving the awarding of his NATA Memorial Awards. He was born December 28, 1902 at Lacon, IL. He died in November, 1979 at 66208  Shawnee Mission, Johnson, KS. On Google Earth, this location appears to be a University of Kansas-affiliated hospital. Ong also landed twice at Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO. Please direct your browser to the link for his full biography.

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