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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 images at right. Andy runs the day to day business of the Club, and we should all thank him for the effort he expended to help us understand better the Waco aircraft that landed and were signed in our Registers way back when.
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WACO INF NC619Y
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We find NC619Y signed in the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) Register at least three times, on July 1, 1931 at13:49PM, Wednesday July 29, 1931, and on Saturday August 15, 1931 at 3:24PM. Neither pilots nor passengers were identified.
All the images on this page are courtesy of Andy Heins (left sidebar) and the National Waco Club archives. At right is 619Y, probably at Nevada City Airport, Sacramento, CA in 1934.
NC619Y (S/N 3364) was manufactured April 15, 1931 by the Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, OH, April 15, 1931. The good news is that it is still with us and still flying. It is owned by the North Cascades Vintage Aero Museum in Snohomish, WA. Below is a photograph of the airplane as it appears at the Museum. It is painted vermilion and silver, a common factory color scheme.
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The manufacturer's specifications as NC614Y came from the factory on April 15, 1931 are below. Other than the make of the propeller and the engine, there is no information on this page.
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Below is information regarding the chain of custody for the airplane from 1931 to, roughly, 1946. Curiously, NC619Y also appeared once in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register, Tucson, AZ, sometime between October 5 and 14, 1930. The pilot was John B. Fornasero. This date was a good six months before the airplane was "officially" delivered according to the paperwork below. Fornasero's flight could have been a ferry flight of this brand new airplane from Troy, OH to Waco's storage space in Oakland, CA before it was delivered.
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Regardless, Fornasero was the chief instructor at Ryan School of Aviation, so it makes sense that he was flying it. After its brief stay with Ryan it went through eleven more owners up through the end of WWII. It lived mostly in the far west, including a couple of stays at Glendale in 1932 and 1943. NC619Y belonged to a few Register pilots, e.g. T. Claude Ryan, John W. Byrnes and Joseph B. Plosser. In its heyday it appears to have been used mostly for training and air transport. According to a site visitor, it is currently owned and on display at the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum via the North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum in Concrete, WA.
Addendum: The main Troy Flying Service was in Troy, OH. The August, 1931 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) magazine posted an advertisement for the company, below. It appeared that Waco gliders were enduring a major price cut due, most likely, to the deepening of the Great Depression.
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