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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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EDWIN HEDEEN
Edwin Hedeen landed at Parks Airport May 29, 1929. If we stand back from his landing, we discover he was on a nation-wide goodwill tour on behalf of his employer, the Johnson Wax Company. He made scheduled stops around the country, giving free rides and otherwise offering to citizens a positive impression of the company. He flew the Waco NC8584. Please direct your browser to the link to view photographs of this airplane. This Waco, owned by Johnson's Wax Company of Racine, is a model ATO, S/N A-98 manufactured in 1929. It still exists and is on exhibit at EAA Chapter 838 in Racine.
A list of his stops and a map of his itineraries for 1929-30 are below. Notice that his landing at St. Louis is dated May 17. He might have been running a dozen days late by the time he made it to Parks Airport..
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This itinerary also places him in Tucson, AZ on February 20, 1930. It traces him on his way from Midland, TX to San Francisco, CA. He noted in the Register that he was inbound from El Paso, TX on his way west to Los Angeles, CA. He had allowed about three weeks to get from Texas to northern California, and Tucson was probably a fuel and rest stop during that leg of his trip. Below, a chart of the listed itinerary.
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Besides his single vist at Parks Airport, Hedeen landed and signed the Register once at Peterson Field (2/27/1932; not part of the charted tour), and three times at the Davis-Monthan Airfield. His biography, including many photographs of his airplane, are online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site. Eddie Hedeen was born May 25, 1895 at Dalbo, MN. I do not know when he died. Does anyone KNOW?
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