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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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FORD 5-AT-B NC9641
This airplane is a Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor (S/N 5-AT-19; ATC # 156) manufactured in January, 1929 by the Stout Metal Airplane Company (Division of Ford Motor Company), Dearborn, MI. It sold on March 6, 1929 to Maddux Air Lines, Los Angeles, CA. Below, is a brochure for Maddux Air Lines service offices that pictures NC9641 in flight over southern California. Please reward yourself and examine some of the other photographs at the link. You will find many images of the restoration of the GCAT building.
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Two years later, on April 21, 1931 the airplane was sold to TWA (Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.). The brochure cites routes and offices for Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT). Maddux, TAT and Standard Air Lines were merged into Transcontinental and Western Air near that time.
NC9641 landed twice at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). The first landing was on Sunday, December 21, 1930 at 12:38PM. The pilot was identified as "Whitney," (Frederic Whitney) arriving from San Francisco, CA. Interestingly, the airplane was identified as belonging to T.W.A. According to the record, it wasn't acquired officially by T.W.A. until four months later.
The second landing at GCAT was on Monday, May 5, 1931. This time neither pilot nor destination were cited. The airplane continued to fly for TWA. The airplane also landed once, on March 8, 1929, at the Davis-Monthan Airfield. Its sparse technography was originally written for the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. I have only this one photograph of the airplane. If you can help with better photos and more information, please let me KNOW.
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