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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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President (as of the upload date of this page) Andy Heins of the National Waco Club sent the image at left. Andy runs the day to day business of the Club, and we should all thank him for the effort he expends to help us understand better the Waco aircraft that were signed so long ago in the Registers of Delta Mike Airfield, Inc.
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WACO QDC NC11244
NC11244 (S/N 3455) was signed once in the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) Register, Saturday, May 30, 1931 at 11:30AM. Tower Operator A.J. Lygum did not identifiy the pilot's name, but he did note one unidentified passenger. He did not record where the airplane came from or where it was going.
It was manufactured by the Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, OH and finished on April 3, 1931. The manufacturer's specifications as it came from the factory are below, courtesy of Andy Heins (cited, left sidebar). The airplane was modestly equipped with basic instrumentation. It was painted black and gold. I have no photographs of NC11244. If you can help with photos, please let me KNOW.
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It appears to have had a major issue regarding quality, because it was recalled to the factory and "rebuilt completely" in accordance with directions from the Waco engineering department. Over a year after it was manufactured, on August 15, 1932, it was transferred to the Continental Aircraft Engine Company, Detroit, MI. A couple of months later it was transferred to E.A. Nelson who appears to have kept it through WWII.
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It was destroyed by fire May 20, 1946, location not specified.Today NC11244 is not assigned to any aircraft in the FAA database, nor does it have a Web presence.
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