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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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MARGUERITE E. "Martie" BOWMAN
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Martie Bowman landed and signed the Parks Airport Register four times. Her first landing, by interpolation, was either August 4 or 5, 1930. She was flying a Waco INF she identified as NX133Y. Based at Los Angeles, CA, she was eastbound to Chicago, IL.
Her second landing was on Monday, September 21, 1931. This time she flew the Waco she identified as NC11477. Based at Los Angeles, she cited her destination as Los Angeles.
Her third and fourth landings on September 28 and December 14, 1931 were also in Wacos she identified as NC11479 and NC11490. Her destination was cited as Kansas City, MO in both cases. Notice the registration numbers of the three Wacos she brought to Parks Airport. They are close together numerically, and in increasing order. She worked for the Waco factory about this time, ferrying new aircraft to their owners.
Martie Bowman was a competitive air racer. In late August, 1930, she was a contestant in The Women’s Dixie Air Derby from Washington, DC to Chicago, Illinois. She won the Women's International Air Derby in 1934. Unlike a good number of her sister pilots who signed the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Registers, Martie Bowman was not a charter member of the Ninety-Nines.
She ferried and raced aircraft for several of the major aircraft and aircraft engine companies during the 1920's and 30's. She and her husband, Leslie Bowman, established an aviation business together and in the 1940's she ferried aircraft from the factories for their business of sales, service and training.
Her daughter and grandchildren maintain a Web page for their grandparents at the link. They have provided many photographs of her and her husband Les Bowman. That page gives insight into the Bowman's later careers as follows, "The Bowman's went on to other careers before their deaths. Les was a ballistics consultant and expert for
many gun companies and both were big game outfitters in Wyoming. They also owned a manufacturing company for horse trailers. Les wrote and photographed articles for many outdoor and gun magazines. Marty was the force behind the force, editing the articles and managing the big game outfitting business.... They were married 66 years."
Martie Bowman also landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield twice (interestingly, both of the aircraft she flew through Tucson are still registered with the FAA). Her biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Born March 22, 1901, Marguerite E. "Martie" Bowman passed away on Friday, October 4, 1985.
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