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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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MARY VON MACH
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Mary Von Mach (1896-1980) landed once and signed the Parks Airport Register on Saturday, August 24, 1929. She was among a group of women signing the Register that day as competitors in the Women's Derby of the 1929 National Air Races (NAR).
As far as I know, she was the only woman in the group who graduated (1931) from Parks College, which was part of the Parks conglomerate (airport, college, aircraft manufacture) in St. Louis. She was flying an airplane she did not identify either by brand or registration number. In all probability, however, her airplane was Travel Air NC631H. The reason for the guess is that she flew through Tucson a week earlier on August 15th flying that airplane on her way to Santa Monica.
Regarding Parks College, the St. Louis University Libraries Digital Collection (SLU) holds a photograph of her posed in an airplane and being congratulated by another woman flier. The caption of that photograph reads, "Pilot Mary Elizabeth von Mach (right), the daughter of a Detroit interior designer, is the first woman to study at Parks. She had passed her pilot's examination in 1927 and came to Parks for training in instrument flying and night flying. (ca. 1929). She also participated in the first women's transcontinental air race in August, 1929. The pilot on the left is unidentified."
Regardless, she finished the Derby, but, surprisingly, the Aircraft Yearbook does not cite that she placed in any event. However, this REFERENCE places her 7th in the cross-country event at the interim stop at Ft. Worth, TX, and 9th at the finish in Cleveland. If anyone can be definitive about her placement, please let me KNOW.
Besides her single landing at St. Louis, she also signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register twice. Her full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link, which also posts the SLU photograph described above. She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. She was inducted into the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame. She carried Private pilot certificate P4117 at the time of the Derby, and earned her Transport pilot certificate as part of her education at Parks College on May 5, 1931. She died at age 84.
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