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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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MAURICE "VIC" FOLEY
Vic Foley landed twice at East St. Louis. His first landing was on Sunday, July 6, 1930 at 8:20AM. He flew an airplane he identified as a Parks P-1 and identified it as NC8386. At the link you'll find that NC8386 is a Parks P-2 with a different engine than the P-1. Regardless, he identified his home base as East St. Louis, IL. He identified no passengers. The photograph below, from the St. Louis University Libraries (SLU) Digital Collection, shows Foley with student pilot, Veldia Frick, standing in front of a Parks P-1 model.
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The SLU caption for the photo reads, "Parks P-1 at Parks College Airfield. Pilot Vic Foley instructs passenger Veldia Frick, a phone operator at Parks College, in the fine art of flying, ca. 1929." Foley is pointing to either something on the wing, or at an aircraft flying by. Regardless, Veldia pays close attention. Unfortunately, the registration number of the airplane is not visible. It is not clear if this is the same P-1 he signed in the Register July 6, 1929.
Foley's second visit to Parks Airport was on Tuesday, December 22, 1931 at 1:20PM.This time he flew the Lockheed Vega NC898E. He wrote in the remarks column of the Register, "2 hr 27 min from Okla City." The air distance between the two cities is about 459 miles. That works out to a speed of about 180MPH. This was a typical speed for the Vega.
Foley also landed once and signed the Register at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ on Thursday, September 17, 1931. He flew NC898E through Tucson.
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