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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 MODEL 9 ORION NC984Y
This airplane is signed twice in the Parks Airport Register. Both times the pilot was John Joseph Harrigan. His first landing was between October 10 and 15, 1931 (he did not enter a date in the Register). He identified his home base as Detroit, MI and his destination as Burbank, CA. NC984Y appears below, ca. 1931, at an unidentified location.
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Harrigan's second visit with 984Y was on October 20, 1931 at 12:00PM. He remained on the ground for 20 minutes before departing northeast bound for Detroit. What we have here is probably a 5-10 day round trip flight from Detroit to the West coast. Burbank was a common destination for Lockheed models, because that's where the factory was and many aircraft were ferried "home" for various changes and upgrades.
NC984Y was manufactured during May, 1931. It was a low-wing, closed cabin monoplane with retractable landing gear. It cruised at about 180MPH with a range of 650-800 miles. It left the factory with a 450HP Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine. It cost $25,000 depending upon accessories and equipment.
NC984Y went through several owners, including New York & Western Airlines, the P.H.Philbin/Air Express Corporation, Phillips Petroleum Company, and finally to Mexico with Aerovias Centrales. A profile of the airplane is below, ca. 1931, wearing New York & Western Airlines livery. From its position on the concrete, these two photos were made at the same sitting, probably when the airplane was new at Burbank.
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Harrigan left no information in the Register regarding for whom he was flying the airplane. But, if the timing was right, he could have been flying for New York & Western Airlines, which was a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Airlines. According to aerofiles.com, New York & Western lasted only five months in 1931 during the early part of the Great Depression.
Regardless, the airplane moved through its chain of custody very rapidly. It crashed at Burbank CA on June 23, 1934 and was destroyed. I have no information about the pilot or possible injuries or fatalities. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
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