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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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LOCKHEED VEGA Model 5 NC891E
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This airplane is a Lockheed Vega Model 5 (S/N 73; ATC #93) manufactured during May 1929 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp B engine (S/N 1449) of 450 HP. It was a five-place airplane.
It landed twice at Parks Airport. The first visit was between November 6 and 8, 1931 (the pilot did not enter a date in the Register). It was flown by W.A. Hansley, who cited his home base as Detroit, MI and his destination as Milford, KS. The second landing was also by Hansley, who cited the same home base with Chicago, IL as his destination. It is not certain if he carried passengers.
During 1931,the airplane was in service with Midland Air Express, a small airline using Lockheed Vega Model 5 NC891E and another Vega (NC195E) based at Kansas City, KS. The airline was in business for about a year from the summer of 1931.At left, from the link, a timetable for Midland Air Express passenger service. Register pilot George E. Halsey was the operations manager for Midland Air Express during 1931. Davis-Monthan Register pilot Robert W. Henderson was a pilot of the line.
Curiously, neither the eastern or western terminus of the timetable explains why 891E was going to Chicago or Milford, KS as cited by pilot Hansley. Possibly the airplane was on a charter flight off the schedule.
Besides its two visits at Parks Airport, NC891E also landed and is signed in the Register once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield. At the link you will find a detailed chain of custody for the airplane, as well as information about its fate.
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