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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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EARL POPULAIRE NX138W
NX138W landed at least eighteen times at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) between December 23, 1930 and May 6, 1931. As with many of the landings at GCAT, the tower Operator did not record the pilot's name. Neither was the home base or destination for any of the landings cited. The airplane owner was entered as "Earl Aviation Corporation."
Below, a profile of NX138W courtesy of Guest Editor Mike Gerow. The location is Long Beach, CA. The photograph was taken by his father, Russell T. Gerow, in 1930. Please direct your browser to R.T. Gerow's link to view some of his other photographs.
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Earl Populaire NX138W is S/N 103, manufactured May 15, 1930 as one of only a few of the type. It was a two-place, land biplane that left the factory with a 95HP Cirrus engine installed. I have also seen the spelling as "Populair," but Populaire seems to be the most frequent.
Regardless, the good news about 138W is that it is still registered with the FAA and is owned since March, 2006 by a gentleman in Sonoma, CA. I am not sure of its airworthiness status, but it its engine is listed by the FAA as a 125HP Warner Scarab. Below, another 1930 photograph of 138W with R.T. Gerow at Long Beach, CA.
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Below, another photograph by R.T. Gerow of NX138W at Long Beach ca. 1930-31. Davis-Monthan Register pilot Paul T. Adams stands in front of the airplane.
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Compared to some Register aircraft, NX138W has had surprisingly few owners. Including the present owner, there were only four others going back to when it was new in 1930. The 95HP Cirrus engine was replaced with the Warner Scarab in 1933, the same year it was sold by the Earl Aviation Corporation to its next owner, Hubert Harlan. Harlan sold it to Elizabeth Cooper in 1935, who sold it back to Harlan in 1939. Harlan then owned it through 1982 when he sold it to Floyd Orr, and Orr to its present owner in 2006.
NX138W also landed once at Clover Field, Santa Monica, CA. If you have further information or photographs of NX138W, please let me KNOW.
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