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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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EVELYN "Bobbi" TROUT
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Bobbi Trout landed once and signed the Register at Parks Airport, on Saturday, August 24, 1929. She was among 15 women who signed the Register that day who were competing in the Women's Derby of the 1929 National Air Races (NAR). She flew the Golden Eagle she identified as NC223M. You'll notice she signed her name "Bobbie." Later she dropped the "e" to make it "Bobbi."
The Women's Derby in 1929 was a big deal, because it was the first time women had been allowed to compete in the NAR. Her sister pilots and Parks Airport Register signers Louise Thaden and Gladys O'Donnell placed first and second in the class A section of the event. Bobbi placed 5th in the class B section.
Besides the Parks Airport Register, Bobbi Trout signed the Davis-Monthan Register (as "Bobbie") a few months earlier on Monday, March 11, 1929. She was a Charter member of the 99's (link has a biography). And, importantly, she is one of four Register pilots I personally have met. Her full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser to the link to find out about my correspondences with her, and to view other photographs (one autographed for your Webmaster), as well as a complete set of U.S. postal cachets signed by her.
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout was born in Greenup, Illinois, on January 7, 1906. She passed away at 97 on January 24, 2003 in San Diego, CA (The New YorkTimes obituary, February 2, 2003; Los Angeles Times obituary, January 30, 2003). In between she lived a full life in aviation and out. I was happy to know her briefly, to meet some of her fellow pilots, and to "party" at least once with her. She carried Transport pilot certificate T2613 and she was the last surviving participant in the first women's transcontinental air race in 1929.
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