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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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LESLIE HAROLD BOWMAN
Les Bowman visited Parks Airport five times between, roughly, May 29, 1929 and September 21, 1931. He flew a Kinner, NC340E, on May 29, 1929. Based at Glendale, CA, he was eastbound and stated Parks Airport as his final destination. No reason was given for his flight.
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His second and third landings were made in Monosport NR/NC113K. Those landings, interpolating from the Register, were made on August 20-22, 1929 and on October 14-15, 1929. This airplane was built August 19, 1929, so it was brand new when it landed the first time. It came from the factory equipped with a Kinner K-5 engine (S/N 667) of 90HP. Excellent photographs of the airplane are available at the link and the link therefrom.
Regarding the Kinner engine, from 1923-28 Bowman worked for the W.B. Kinner company, first in engineering, then in charge of field sales and service. Bowman was an airplane engine designer. W. B. Bert Kinner and Les developed one of the first five cylinder-radial type airplane motors. A version of that engine was installed on NR/NC113K (see above).
His fourth landing was in the Waco NC651N. He visited on Friday, February 14, 1930 at 11:00PM. He listed no details around this landing. His final visit was on Monday, September 21, 1931 at 6:30PM. This time he flew the Waco NC11479 on a round-robin trip to and from Los Angeles, CA. From 1931-36, he worked for the Waco Aircraft Company as western factory representative.
Bowman's daughter and grandchildren maintain a Web page for their grandparents at the link. They have provided many photographs of him and his wife Martie Bowman.
Bowman also landed at Tucson and signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register either April 21 or 22, 1932, as a flight of two with his wife. Les Bowman's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Web site at the link.
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