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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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The Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs are archived at:
Pictorial Collections and Photographic Services Department
Hagley Museum and Library
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807
092-015 J. Victor Dallin Aerial Surveys Co. Collection , 1925-40, 15,000 items. [BW, FN, GN, LA]
Collection is comprised of aerial views of the Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE areas including landscapes, residences, schools, industrial sites, country clubs, towns, rivers, and lakes. Photography is by J. Victor Dallin.
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JOHN VICTOR DALLIN
Victor Dallin landed once and signed the St. Louis Register on Wednesday, October 9, 1929 at 1:15PM. Based at Philadelphia, PA, he cited his destination as Tulsa, OK. He flew an unidentified Bellanca, which was probably NC4799. About a year earlier, he had landed twice at the Davis-Monthan Airfield and signed the Register flying NC4799. Please direct your browser to the airplane's link to learn details of its life and fate. Notably, the airplane was owned by Parks Register pilot Henry Belin duPont.
At the time he landed at Tucson, he was racing in the 1928 National Air Races. As well, his mission that brought him to Tucson for these two visits was to take aerial images of the Race at Los Angeles, and to compete in the Efficiency Race and the Speed Race. He won the Aviation Town & Country Trophy and the Detroit News Air Transport Trophy for efficiency.
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Why was he charged to take aerial photographs? Dallin learned aerial photography as an aviator during WWI. In civilian life, he was the owner/operator of Dallin Aerial Surveys Company from 1924-1941. The company was successful, but small. He never employed more than seven people.The company was located at what has become the main Philadelphia International airport. A company history is at the link.
Dallin's company took thousands of aerial photographs throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Canada and Cuba, most in the Philadelphia area and most from relatively low altitude. At left, for example, is a photograph of the Philadelphia Athletics vs. Chicago Cubs game at Shibe Park in North Philadelphia. October 11, 1929. The park no longer exists. Given the date of this photograph and the date of his landing at Parks Airport, and the fact that his itinerary was southwest-bound, one of his staff was probably assigned to do it in his absence. A collection of his photographs is held by the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE. The key to the collection is in the left sidebar.
From the history link, above, "Dallin took photos on speculation and hired salesmen at various times during the company's history. He also worked on contract, specializing in photos of industrial sites, special events, private estates, mapping related projects, and images for real estate sales and speculation. The company compiled the first aerial survey map of Philadelphia in the 1920s."
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At right, a photograph of Dallin at far left, with three of his staff and aerial cameras. The date of this photograph precedes his landing at St. Louis by only a couple of weeks.
He maintained his military status, and he was commissioned lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps November 19, 1938. On the eve of WWII, from the company history, "The company shut down in 1939 soon after three of Dallin's staff joined the armed forces. Dallin followed his employees into the service commanding air bases in Jamaica, the West Indies, Brazil, and Spanish Guiana during World War II. He went on to command the Air Force Navigational School in San Marcos, Texas. In 1945 he was named Chief for the Bureau of Aeronautics by the City of Philadelphia, a position he held until 1953. Dallin worked for the National Association of Manufacturers and then as technican for an optical firm until his retirement in 1970."
He has a sparse Web presence and I could find no photographs of him alone. Besides his single landing at St. Louis, he landed and signed the Davis-Monthan Register twice. Dallin's full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please follow that link to learn more about his aerial photography business, and to follow a link to a museum collection of his aerial images. Victor Dallin was born in England on January 16, 1897. He passed away October 10, 1991.
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