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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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FORD 5-AT-B NC9686
This large, trimotor airplane was a Ford model 5-AT-B, S/N 5-AT-41. It is signed into the Grand Central AIr Terminal (GCAT) Register 39 times between January 7, 1931 and May 8, 1931.
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Above, NC9686 stands in Maddux Air Lines (owned by Jack Maddux) livery, date unknown, but probably before 1929. It went through several ownerships (I do not know exact dates), the first being Maddux, then Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA), two individuals, F. Kane and G.M. Prescott, and finally to aircraft broker and Register signer Charles H. Babb.
NC9686 appears to us in the GCAT Register when it was owned by TWA. Based at San Francisco, CA, it was used as a transport aircraft in TWA's west coast route from San Francisco to Los Angeles and back. On one occasion, it flew from GCAT to Agua Caliente, Mexico and back via San Diego, CA. On some Register entries, "600," "602," or "603" were written next to the owner/operator's name. These were fleet numbers for the airplanes.
The image below, is from a section of the TWA timetable for the spring of 1931. The complete table is viewable at the link.
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The reason I include this snip from the timetable is that if you call out the database entries for NC9686 by clilcking on AIRPLANES in the upper right corner and finding NC9686 in the dropdown menu, you'll be able to view the dates and times of arrival and departure for its 39 appearances at GCAT. Many of those recorded by the GCAT tower operator in the Register over 80 years ago agree within minutes of the northbound and southbound arrivals and departures tabulated in the schedule. How rewarding to be able to pry out these little corroborations from obscure sources like old airfield Registers and timetables!
Further, unlike most of the entries in the GCAT Register, we have the names of three of the pilots who landed with NC9686. Because of the tower operator who filled in the Register, A.J. Lygum, we have only the last names: Holloway, Hull and Rice.
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