OTHER RESOURCES
Some of this information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.
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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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NX832H EMSCO B-3
This airplane was manufactured in May, 1929 by the Emsco Aircraft Corporation (formerly the Albatross Aircraft Corporation), Long Beach, CA. It was approved for its NX (experimental) registration on June 17, 1929. The reason for its experimental license is that it was destined to carry a large amount of fuel in a solo endurance attempt.
Unfortunately NX832H has only a very brief history. Its end was near when it landed at East St. Louis on Tuesday, August 20, 1929 at 2:05PM. The pilot was recorded clearly in the Register as Charles F. Rocheville. Rocheville was the designer of Emsco aircraft. He did not record passengers. Based in Los Angeles, Rocheville was headed for Cleveland, OH, probably to attend the National Air Races. He was part of a flight of two.
Signed in just above Rocheville (Register page 4, near the bottom of the page) was Jack Reid (q.v), who was flying another B-3 identified as NC849E. Images of Rocheville, Reid and both NX832H and NC849E are at Reid's link. Both were headed for Cleveland.
Pilot Jack Reid was killed in Rocheville's airplane, NX832H at Cleveland while attempting a solo endurance record. He and NX832H had circled Cleveland for 38 hours and 40 minutes when he attempted to land under foggy conditions, struck a tree and destroyed the airplane. A news photograph of the accident is at Reid's link, above.
The NASM data card for the airplane states, "Aircraft wrecked at conclusion of Solo Endurance Flight during Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio, 9/31/29. Pilot Tomas G. Reid of Los Angeles, Calif. killed. Wreckage was burned."
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