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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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FOKKER F-32 NC333N

The Fokker F-32 NC333N, along with its sister Glendale Register ship, NC334N, were the largest, four-engine transport aircraft of their day. Below, from the Albuquerque, NM Museum Photo Archives (ABQ) Flickr stream, is a photograph of NC333N (ca. 1930) taxiing toward the camera on a dusty taxiway. Note the size of the man in comparison with the aircraft. This was truly a large airplane.

Fokker F-32 NC333N, Date & Location Unknown (Source: ABQ)
Fokker F-32 NC333N, Date & Location Unknown (Source: ABQ))

Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), is an unintended photograph of NC333N at left. The subject of the photo was actually the pilot in the parachute, George Robertson. Robertson had just performed three consecutive outside loops. The photograph is dated May 18, 1930. May 18th was a Sunday that year, and the crowd in the background suggests this was an airshow of some type, perhaps with Robertson's loops a featured event, with 333N on static display. Robertson appears to be in a hurry: hopefully to get to a podium to thank the crowd, and not because he became airsick.

Fokker NC333N, Oakland, CA, Ca. 1930 (Source: SDAM)
Fokker NC333N, Oakland, CA, Ca. 1930 (Source: SDAM)

Another photograph taken at the Alhambra Airport is below. The date is unknown, but 1930-31 would be a good guess.

Fokker F-32 NC333N, Alhambra, CA, Ca. 1930 (Source: Web)

NC333N landed at least 42 times at Glendale during 1930-31. As with most of the landings at Grand Central Air Terminal, the operator only recorded the name of the pilot a few times. Among those cited are Eddie Bellande, and three others identified as Royal Leonard, and simply as "Holloway" (H.H. "Dutch" Holloway) and "Rice" (George Rice).

Below, another SDAM photograph showing an informal gathering of unknown people, at an unknown place and date, in front ot the airplane. Notice the lettering on the fuselage of this port side view. This photograph was probably taken near April, 1930, when the airplane was in the process of being transported to the west coast and integrated into the transport schedule of Western Air Express/TWA.

Fokker NC333N, Ca. 1930, Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)
Fokker NC333N, Ca. 1930, Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)

Note the radio antenna standing erect on top of the fuselage. The "House Party" is described at the Peterson Field link for NC334N sister ship.

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