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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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-10 NC4458
This large, trimotor airplane landed at least seven times at Glendale during 1930-31. It carried three 400HP Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines. It was a workhorse transport for TWA, Incorporated, which according to the Register, flew the Los Angeles to San Francisco, CA route. As with most of the landings at Grand Central, the tower operator did not identify the pilot by name, nor did he cite the number of passengers.
NC4458 was a Fokker F-10, serial number 1000, manufactured in the United States under license by the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation at Hasbrouck Heights, NJ. Published in Flight, a British magazine, December 13, 1928 is this article describing the features of the Fokker F-10 (PDF 553Kb). NC4458 is pictured nose-on and in left profile on the first page of this article. It wears Western Air Express (WAE) livery, indicating the photograph was taken before WAE merged with TWA. The article presents a 3-view of the F-10 on the second page, as well as dimensions and performance characteristics.
The airplane carried 12 passengers, 480 pounds of mail or freight and two pilots. The seating arrangement was also pictured at the download, above. The chairs were wicker with grey velour upholstery, and they did not recline. Neither did they appear to be anchored to the floor. It had a single lavatory. The airplane's top speed was 148MPH.
NC4458 is shown sitting on the ramp at Oakland (CA) Airport, date unidentified, but ca. early 1930s.
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