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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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President (as of the upload date of this page) Andy Heins of the National Waco Club sent the images at right. Andy runs the day to day business of the Club, and we should all thank him for the effort he expended to help us understand better the Waco aircraft that landed and were signed in our Registers way back when.
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WACO INF NC/NX864V
Waco INF NC864V (S/N 3265) was manufactured June 14, 1930 by the Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, OH. It appeared one time in the Register of the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). The tower Operator, A.J. Lygum, left us with little information. The pilot and single passenger were unidentified, as were locations of home base and destination.
A unique photograph is below, courtesy of Andy Heins and the National Waco Club (left sidebar). It is difficult to tell if the airplane is going all the way onto its nose or whether there was a delicate balance and its on its way back to its three-point stance. It's also difficult to tell if the black arc at the lower right of the photo was soil being kicked up by the prop hitting the surface, or if the bend in the photo caused a shadow artifact. We can hope the latter.
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The good news is, according to the FAA online database, NC864V is still with us and owned by a gentleman in Dayton, OH. Below is a contemporary photograph. It is painted vermilion and silver, a common factory paint scheme. Note the addition of wheel pants.
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Below are the Manufacturing Specifications for NC864V at the time of manufacture, June 14, 1930. Other than color, and the engine and propeller brands, there is little other useful information. Notice that it left the factory with the NX registration, meaning that it was "experimental." I do not know why.
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Below is information regarding the chain of custody for the airplane from the date of delivery, June 14, 1930 to 1946. It was initially transferred to the Kinner Airplane Company, which ran its business at the Grand Central Air Terminal. It then went through five owners to 1939.
On July 15, 1941 it was registered with the United Flying School of America in Los Angeles. The school was located at Vale Field, Montebello, CA. It was part of the network of government-sponsored schools initiated on the eve of WWII to train aircraft mechanics and field attendants, and the Civilian Pilot Training Program to produce pilots for the military. It immediately transferred to Montana for what appeared to be the duration of WWII. It was then owned by individuals on the west coast through 1946 when this record ended.
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NC864V also appeared once in the Register of Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO. It was flown there solo by Les Bowman on Monday, September 22, 1930. He was competing in the 1930 National Air Tour, of which Colorado Springs was the twelfth stop. He arrived at Colorado Springs from Denver, CO and remained overnight. When he departed next day, he identified his destination as Garden City, KS, 218 miles distant.
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