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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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HALBERT HAROLD "Dutch" HOLLOWAY

 

H.H. Holloway, Date Unknown (Source: Proctor via Woodling)
H.H. Holloway, Date Unknown (Source: Proctor via Woodling)

 

H.H. Holloway was born January 6, 1896 in Bakersfield, CA. He was the last of eight children (five sisters and two brothers). The 1900 U.S. Census places him, at age 4, in Bakersfield, Kern County, CA. His father was a farmer. Both Holloway's father and mother were born before the Civil War. The 1910 Census cites him at the same address, living with his parents and one of his sisters.

Holloway is signed in the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) at least nine times between December 15, 1930 and May 13, 1931. Each of his visits were flown in aircraft owned by TWA. Among them was the Fokker four-engined transport aircraft, NC333N. This airplane was the largest transport of its day. Holloway also flew the Fords NC9686, and NC8413. His routes recorded in the Register generally ran from Glendale to San Francisco and return.

The portrait at left is courtesy of Jon Proctor via Guest Editor Bob Woodling. His hat badge is that of Western Air Express (WAE), a predecessor of TWA whose name was subsumed by merger. You can view a close-up of the handsome WAE cap insignia at the Lee Willey biography page over on the Davis-Monthan Airfield Web site.

Holloway was a long-term aviator and TWA pilot (see below). He learned to fly in the military during WWI. His WWI draft registration card is below, dated June 5, 1917. He was 21 years old and employed as an automobile mechanic in Bakersfield. He was described as medium height and build, blue eyes and dark brown hair.

H.H. Holloway, WWI Draft Registration, June 5, 1917 (Source: ancestry.com)
H.H. Holloway, WWI Draft Registration, June 5, 1917 (Source: ancestry.com)

As with many things, the details are in the fine print. If you look carefully at the diagonal printing at the lower left of this card, the text says, "If person is of African descent, tear off this corner." Some things change; some things remain the same.

Seemingly incongruous, however, in 1922 he applied for an operator's rating and license for boats (15 tons or less) issued by the Department of Commerce (DOC). His application is below, dated May 2, 1922.

H.H. Holloway, DOC Motor Boat Pilot License Application, May 2, 1922 (Source: ancestry.com)

Look closely in the top lert corner of his license, below, and you'll notice that the license was for flying boats. He bought a flying boat in 1921 and flew passengers back and forth from Los Angeles to Avalon, Catalina Island, an over-water distance of about 22 miles. His license was marked cancelled in 1927, probably because he stopped flying amphibious aircraft.

H.H. Holloway, DOC Steamboat Inspection Service License, May 2, 1922 (Source: ancestry.com)
H.H. Holloway, DOC Steamboat Inspection Service License, May 2, 1922 (Source: ancestry.com)

As a young man, in 1924, Holloway traveled to Hawaii. Immigration forms found at ancestry.com from U.S. Immigration authorities cited his departure on August 30, 1924 and his arrival back in the U.S. at San Pedro on October 18, 1924.

As WWII ramped up, Holloway was again registered for the draft. His registration card is below. Holloway was 46 years old and a pilot of the line for Transcontinental & Western Air.

H.H. Holloway, WWII Draft Registration, Ca. 1942 (Source: ancestry.com )
H.H. Holloway, WWII Draft Registration, Ca. 1942 (Source: ancestrly.com )

After WWII, Holloway returned to T.W.A. A Crew Manifest from August 2, 1946 cites him serving as second co-captain on a flight to Europe and return, below. I don't recognize any of the other pilots as being Register signers.

T.W.A. Crew Manifest, August 2, 1946 (Source: ancestry.com)
T.W.A. Crew Manifest, August 2, 1946 (Source: ancestry.com)

 

His airplane, Trans World Airline NC45341, was manufactured during WWII as a C-54E S/N 44-9092 and converted to a civil DC-4 for T.W.A. It was delivered to the airline in March, 1946. Below, from the Larkins Flickr Stream, is a profile of the airplane. Although the date of the photo is not specified, it is sometime between 1946 and 1957.

NC45341, Date Unk. (Source: Larkins)
NC45341, Date Unk. (Source: Larkins)

Interestingly, the airplane was delivered wearing the name Trans World Airline four years before it became the official corporate name. 
NC45341 was named “The Taj Mahal” and was the first TWA aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean wearing what would become the standard corporate name in 1950. In 1957 NC45341 was sold to Jordan International Airlines as JY-ABD.

Notice that this form is typwritten in English. This might not stand out as an issue, but on July 16, 1948 the captain of NC4531, and the T.W.A. company were involved in a lawsuit by the government for failing to deliver -- typed and in English -- a list of alien passengers entering the U.S. from France.

Interestingly, the suit and resulting fine ($10 per alien passenger not so listed) were reversed on appeal by T.W.A., because the court found that the Federal Aviation Regulation specifying "typed" and "in English" was not clearly specified.

Mr. Proctor also provides this obituary for H.H. Holloway that appeared during 1986 in the T.W.A. company magazine, Skyliner. The article is below, as well as in a download at the link (PDF 589kB). It provides an excellent biographical sketch.

H.H. Holloway Obituary, T.W.A. Skyliner, 1986 (Source: Proctor via Woodling)

Holloway was among the earliest of transport pilots for Transcontinental & Western Airlines (TWA). He held seniority number 8. Fellow GCAT Register pilot George Rice was seniority number 10. Other names that show up in this article are Register pilots Jack Frye and Paul Richter. They were the first managing officers of TWA, having been absorbed into the company with their early operation, Standard Airlines. Please direct your browser to their links to learn about these excellent pilots and entrepreneurs, and about their Standard Airlines. Also Bob Buck (pictured in the article above), with whom I spoke on the telephone shortly before he passed away.

H.H. Holloway, Grave Marker, 1986 (Source: findagrave.com)

 

Holloway retired from TWA in January, 1956 after 39 years of flying. He enjoyed a good long retirement and spent his waning years as a gold miner. From the article it sounds like it was the digging that was important to him; not finding gold.

Holloway never married and passed away March 24, 1986 at age 90. His grave marker is at left. He is buried in Ventura, CA. He flew with Transport pilot certificate T2688. Note the wings in the upper left corner of his grave marker.

 

 

 

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