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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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PARKS P-2 NC8386

This airplane was a Parks P-2 with an Axelson engine. It carried S/N 2931. It landed twice at Parks Airport. Its first appearance was on Friday, March 28, 1930 at 5:00PM. The pilot was Henry Schultz, He wrote, "Parks Airport, St. Louis" in the Home Base field of the Register. Below the airplane stands outside a hangar at Parks Airport on May 30, 1929. Its registration number is NX8386, probably because of the experimental nature of the engine and airframe combination. This photograph is from the St. Louis University Libraries Digital Collections (SLU) at the link.

From the livery, it belonged to Parks Air College. Other lettering on the fuselage announces a "Coast to Coast Flight" sponsored by The Elks magazine.

Parks P-2 NX8386 at Parks Airport, Gardner Trophy Race, May 30, 1929 (Source: SLU)
Parks P-2 NX8386 at Parks Airport, Gardner Trophy Race, May 30, 1929 (Source: SLU)

The photo caption states, "Aircraft: Parks P-2, U.S. Civil Aircraft Registration No. X8386. Axelson Engine, 7 cylinder, certified August 1929. Photographed at Parks Airport during the Gardner Trophy Race event by Vic Stuhr of Seattle, formerly a St. Louis resident and aviation enthusiast, although this plane was not in that race. Pilot was Lt. Edgar C. Schmid (30 May 1929)." Schmid is not a Register pilot. His name is lettered under the cockpit coaming.

Note the corner of the building behind the vertical stabilizer of the airplane, above. As an aside, an interesting juxtaposition is below. That corner of the building is the same one behind your Webmaster in the photograph below. I am facing in the opposite direction from the airplane, which, in the photo above, is just around the corner to the left (my right).

Your Webmaster at the Parks Airport Hangar, September 17, 2013 (Source: Webmaster)

The airplane's second landing at East St. Louis was on Sunday, July 6, 1930 at 8:20AM. The pilot this time was Vic Foley. He was based at East St. Louis.

NC/NX8386 no longer exists. It was deregistered August 14, 1931 by its then owner, Chester E. Sawicki. Its registration number was reassigned to a 1972 Grumman G-164A Ag Cat. I have no information as to whether it was destroyed in 1931, or if it was placed in storage and still lives somewhere waiting to be discovered. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.

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