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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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NEVA PARIS

 

Neva Paris, 1929 (Source: NASM)
Neva Paris, 1929 (Source: NASM)

 

Neva Paris landed once at Parks Airport, on Saturday August 24, 1929. She flew the Curtiss Robin she identified as NC909K. Her airplane was brand new. She learned to fly during 1928-29 at the Curtiss Flying Service school, located at the old Curtiss Field (Roosevelt Field No. 2) at Garden City, LI, NY. The Curtiss Flying Service appointed Paris their entrant in the National Air Races (NAR) that year, and her landing at St. Louis was part of the itinerary of the Women's Derby from Santa Monica, CA to Cleveland, OH. At right, a photograph of Paris somewhere between Santa Monica and Cleveland during the Women's Derby. Ultimately, she took 6th place in the class A section of the Derby.

Paris was an organizer and charter member of the Ninety-Nines, the international women pilot's association. She, along with other female pilots participating in the 1929 Women's Derby, formed the nucleus of the organization at Cleveland in 1929. As stated by Jessen, page 177, at some point during the Derby, "Neva Paris ran from airplane to airplane to tell the competitors of a meeting planned under the grandstands in Cleveland. She was the beacon lighting the way for a formal organization for women pilots."

Besides her single landing at St. Louis, Neva Paris landed and signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register once, on Thursday, August 15, 1929. She was westbound from New York, through Douglas, AZ and Tucson, to Los Angeles, CA. She was probably on her way to Santa Monica for the Women's Derby. Her full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link.

According to one source, Neva Paris was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in January, 1883. She died January 9, 1930, just four months after we find her at Tucson and St. Louis. She was flying to Miami, FL when her airplane (a Curtiss Robin Challenger) spun in near Woodbine, GA. At the time, she was an employee of Curtiss and doing promotional appearances to attract women to flying while en route to Miami. She intended to enter another competition at Miami.

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