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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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STINSON S JUNIOR NC12180

This airplane landed three times at East St. Louis. At each visit the pilot was Virgil C. Fichter. Fichter cited no passengers, or no reasons for any of his flights. He only noted "Haywire" in the remarks column of the Register at his last landing.

Fichter's first landing was on Friday, October 30, 1931 at 5:30PM. He arrived at Parks Airport from Quincy, IL. His second landing was on Thursday, November 12, 1931, on a round-robin flight from Quincy. The "Haywire" landing was a month later on Friday, December 11, 1931 3:45PM. This flight was a round-robin from and to East St. Louis.

NC12180 carried S/N 8085. A photograph of the airplane appears on the St. Louis University Libraries Digital Collections (SLU) below and at the link.

NC12180 in Foreground, Wearing Inter-Cities Airways Livery, 1937 (Source: SLU)
NC12180 in Foreground, Wearing Inter-Cities Airways Livery, 1937 (Source: SLU)

This photo is dated 1937, and the caption reads, "Parks College aircraft used for the Executive Pilot Program lined up on the runway outside of the Parks Hangar. (late 1930s)." The gentlemen standing by the airplanes are unidentified. Below, detail of the rudder showing the registration number. Notice the strung and pulled bow and arrow, which was the Stinson logo.

NC12180 in Foreground, Wearing Inter-Cities Airways Livery, 1937, Registration Number (Source: SLU)
NC12180 in Foreground, Wearing Inter-Cities Airways Livery, 1937, Registration Number (Source: SLU)

I could find no information about NC12180 at the Smithsonian. It is not registered with the FAA (12180 is assigned to a Cessna). I have no information about its later life or its ultimate fate. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.

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