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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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FOKKER F-10A NC535E

 

NC535E landed three times at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). The first two landings were on Monday, March 23, 1931. The first was at 8:30AM and the second at 5:44PM. The third landing was on March 28, 1931 at 10:38AM. The pilot was identified only on the second landing as "Lake St. John."

The pilot's name is curious, because it was probably entered in error by tower Operators Wright or Lygum. Lake Littlejohn was a known pilot of NC535E. He brought that airplane through Tucson three times, including on April 4, 1931, just a few days after we fine NC535E at GCAT. Chances are very high the pilot at GCAT was Littlejohn.

Below, an image of NC535E from this source. We see this large airplane in "Rio Grande" livery, posed with a group of well-dressed passengers, including one gentleman tha appears to be close to seven feet tall.

Fokker NC535E, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Dutch Aviation)
Fokker NC535E, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Dutch Aviation)

Below, an image of 535E that appears in a blog at the link (scroll about 1/3 down the page). Note the tracks in a new snowfall and the low-lying clouds.

Fokker F-10 NC535E, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Blog Link)
Fokker F-10 NC535E, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Blog Link)

Besides three landings at GCAT, NC535E also landed three times and is signed in the Register at the Davis-Monthan Airfield. Its full technography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there for additonal photographs and information regarding its pilot and its landings at Tucson, AZ, and for information regarding the Rio Grande oil company.

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