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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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CURTISS ROBIN NC356K
This airplane, the identification for which is in contention as I upload this page, landed once at Parks Airport, on Monday, February 17, 1930 at 3:15PM. Unfortunately, the pilot's name is unreadable in the Register. The first initials are "H.V." Please take a look at page 11 of the Register and see if you can interpret a name. Please let me KNOW what you find.
On that page you'll also notice that the pilot entered the airplane number as "NC356;" no letter suffix. Because the pilot did not enter the letter suffix in the Register, it could be one of two Curtiss Challenger Robins, either NC356E or NC356K. NC356E carried serial number 147, and NC356K carried serial number 520. I do not know their dates of manufacture, making it further diffucult to tell them apart. However, there are no other Curtiss Robins registered with NC356(any letter or number). Our airplane has to be NC356E or K. Likewise, since he did enter the airplane type, "Robin Challenger," NC356 cannot be the number. Besides, NC356 was assigned to a Travel Air.
For purposes of the Register database, we are keying off of NC356K to bring this page to your screen. The photograph, below, from the San Diego Aerospace Museum (SDAM) Flickr stream, was taken of NC356K on April 25, 1930, about two months after we find it at East St. Louis.
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In the photo at left, I pushed the contrast in PhotoShop to bring out the registration number on the rudder in the photo above (note you can barely see the rudder in the original image, above).
The only other airplane our unidentified pilot could have been flying was NC356E. That number was assigned to a Curtiss Robin Model B. The pilot wrote "Curtiss #2M" in the remarks column of the Register. This might be a clue as to which Robin our airplane is.
One thing we do know, NC356K also landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, on Saturday,May 3, 1930 at 6:35PM. It was flown by pilot H.R. Ogden. Based at Garden City, NY, Ogden arrived at Tucson from San Diego, CA. He remained over night at Tucson, departing the next day for Carlsbad, NM.
I could find no information for this airplane at the Smithsonian. I know nothing of its chain of custody or its ultimate fate. if you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
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