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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 NC625Y
Waco INF NC625Y (S/N 3363) was logged four times in the Register of the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). All landings were on May 28, 1931 and they were spread across the afternoon as takeoffs, short flights and landings. The airplane was about five weeks old at the time, and these flights could easily have been demonstration flights for people interested in getting the feel of this new airplane. Below, courtesy of Andy Heins (left sidebar) is a photograph of NC625Y behind Les Bowman, Martie Bowman and C.C. Ludlow.
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Les Bowman and Martie Bowman were pilots for Waco. I found a couple of references that suggested Ludlow was a special distributor for Brownback Motor Laboratories, Inc. aircraft engines. Knickers and spats were in style. The same photograph is posted on Martie's Web page.
Below are the Manufacturing Specifications at the time of manufacture, April 15, 1931. Other than the engine and propeller brands there is little other useful information.
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Below is the record of chain of custody for the airplane, ca. 1931 to 1946. Besides Roy Minor, Ralph Canning of Canning and Nicholson, and S.J. Coughran were Register pilots as well as owners of NC625Y.
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Note that mail was returned to the Civil Aeronautics Authority as of March 25, 1946. NC625Y still has a presence in the FAA database online. It is classified as a deregistered aircraft, having been deregistered February 19, 1941. According to the record, it was last owned by a gentleman in Reno, NV. The FAA record conflicts with the information above, which suggests it ws registered with Frank T. Olson of Ogden, UT as late as February 27, 1943. If you have information about the airplane, please let me KNOW.
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