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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register (available in paperback) 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 Kindle Edition 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 (available in paperback) 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 (available as free PDF download) 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 Kindle Edition 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 & Kindle Edition) 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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Very readable volumes about the Grand Central Air Terminal are these books:
Underwood, John. 1984. Madcaps, Millionaires and 'Mose'. Heritage Press, Glendale, CA. 144pp.
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Underwood, John. 2007. Grand Central Air Terminal. Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, SC. 127pp.
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Thanks to Guest Editor Bob Woodling for help researching this page.
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VICTOR MARTIN RECHTSTEINER
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Victor M. "Rex" Rechtsteiner was listed in the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) Register as simply "Rex." Tower Operator A.J. Lygum logged him on the ground on December 14, 1930 at 11:30AM. He logged his departure as 11:43 the same day. Rex flew the Timm NC887E, which was owned by the Trojan Flying Club. He carried a single, unidentified passenger. No arrival or destination information was recorded by Lygum.
We can pinpoint the approximate date of the Club's acquisition of the Timm. There was an article in the Daily Trojan, February 18, 1930 that specifically cited recent purchase of the airplane. The article is exhibited at right. This was the second Club airplane, the first being a Swallow. Note near the bottom of the article that Rex Rechtsteiner was cited as one of two training pilots for the Club. The Club purchased another airplane in 1932. An article describing that purchase is over at the Club's link, above.
According to ancestry.com, Rechtsteiner was born February 11, 1898 in Ohio. In the 1900 U.S. Census, his first, Rechtsteiner (age 2) lived with his parents Frank E. (38) and Ella (23) at 1100 Brown Street in Dayton, OH. His father was employed as a marble cutter.
In 1920, the Census located him in Miami, OH as a boarder in a house with six other people. He was unemployed, but I do not know if he was in college at Miami University.
Over the next decade he moved to California and was married. In 1930, the Census placed him, age 32, at 9040 West 25th Street in Los Angeles with his wife, Ruth (29) and son, Robert (5; 8/28/1924-4/24/2012). His occupation was listed as "Aviator" in a "Flying Club." It appears that he was hired for teaching Trojan Flying Club members to fly. Ruth was not employed outside their home, which they owned and valued at $5,000. That address today is a modest, tile-roofed Spanish-style bungalow. It could be 1930s vintage.
Over the next decade, Rechtsteiner left aviation for a local government job. The 1940 Census placed Rechtsteiner (42) in Los Angeles at the same address, still valued at $5,000. He lived with his wife, Ruth (39) and their son, Robert (15). Rechtsteiner's occupation was listed as "Insurance Adjuster" for "Los Angeles County." Ruth was listed as a "Designer" of "Lingerie" (spelled "Longeree" by the census taker). I don't know when or why he left aviation. I could find no other Census or other information about Rechtsteiner at ancestry.com. I have no other information about his later life or activities. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
Rechtsteiner passed away July 13, 1953 in San Diego, CA.
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