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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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HENRY JEFFERSON "Hank" MIDDLETON
Hank Middleton landed twice at Parks Airport. He probably landed many other times as well, because he went to school and graduated from Parks Air College. We know this because an article in the Decatur Daily Review (IL) for June 1, 1930 cited him earning his Transport pilot certificate, below. His pathway to wings was not easy.
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For interest, I left an article that mentioned the Nickel Plate Railroad. And an advertisement for film processing.
Middleton was born May 31, 1909 in Greenup, IL, and the 1910 U.S. Census cited him living with his parents and a hired hand on a farm in Greenup, IL. In 1920 he was on a different farm and he had a younger brother Jessie Gerald (Jerald?)(1911–1979).
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The 1930 Census placed him living at 304 West Maine St., Casey, IL. That handsome, two-storey brick home still stands today surrounded by other well-manicured properties. At age 20, he lived with his parents, younger brother J. Jerald [sic] and a servant named Hazel Orndoff. His occupation was coded as "aviator." His father, Frank, was the proprietor of a filling station. They owned their home, valued at $8,000.
The article above mentioned that he flew a Waco airplane. In both his landings at East St. Louis he failed to tell us the registration number of his Waco, although he did mention the model once, a Model F. He first signed the Register on Tuesday, February 4, 1930. He left no other information in the Register. The second time was seven months later on Monday, September 1, 1930. He cited his homebase as Terre Haute, IN and his destination as St. Louis, MO. He didn't leave us much.
Between his landings at Parks, however, he married Mildred Craig (1910–1985) on June 30th, as documented in the Decatur Herald (IL), July 5, 1930, right.
A birth certificate at ancestry.com recorded the birth, in Terre Haute, IN, of his first darghter, Nancy Lee, on May 3, 1931, below.
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I found no U.S. Census data for Middleton for 1940. However, a Brazilian immigration form recorded his presence there in April 1947, below. He was about 38 years old in the photograph.
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The back of the immigration form cited a non-US aircraft registration number. It is not clear from the document if Middleton was a passenger on that airplane, or the pilot of it. It is also not clear if he was working in Brazil during WWII and that explains the lack of Census data for 1940. If you can shed light on his whereabouts between 1940 and 1973, please let me KNOW.
Middleton flew West on November 30, 1973 at Hialeah, FL. He remained married to Mildred throughout his life. They had three daughters together, all of whom survived him. He is buried in Casey, IL in a family plot.
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