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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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JOAN FAY SHANKLE

 

Joan Shankle, CA. 1931 (Source: Shankle)
Joan Shankle, CA. 1931 (Source: Shankle)

 

Joan Shankle landed once at Parks Airport, Friday, April 17, 1936 at 9:25AM. Based at her home in Tubac, AZ, she was southwest bound to San Antonio, TX. She was solo in the Waco YOC, NC14616.

Her husband taught her to fly under a student pilot's permit (#9639) issued in Boston, MA on December 19, 1928. She soloed on May 13, 1929.

She soon became a leader among women pilots and, in the fall of 1929, helped found the 99s as a charter member. She became chair of the New England chapter and spoke to many women’s clubs about aviation.

Her husband was in the military and they moved from Boston to Ft. Sill, OK, and then to Arizona at a ranch south of Tucson. Shankle was the only Arizona woman entered in the 1931 National Air Races, which had a field of 16 women and 44 men. In the 2,400 mile Women’s Speed Classic, she placed ninth despite a broken stabilizer that developed a short distance from Amarillo, TX (repaired with a piece of barbed wire). She was also the first woman to fly solo from Boston to Miami.

Besides her single landing at Parks Airport, Joan Shankle landed once at Clover Field and four times at Tucson to sign the Davis-Monthan Register. Shankle's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Joan Fay Shankle and her husband Dutch Shankle were inducted to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame on April 17, 1999. Born July 2, 1908, she passed away in 1964. She carried Transport pilot certificate T7838.

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