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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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WALLACE BEERY

 

Wallace Beery, Publicity Still, Date Unknown (Source: Heins)
Wallace Beery, Publicity Still, Date Unknown (Source: Heins)

 

Wallace Beery (1885-1949) was a well-known movie actor as well as a pilot. He landed twice at Glendale, both on the same day. His first landing was at 9:31AM on May 7, 1931. This seemed to be a warmup or maintenance check flight with his Travel Air NC159V, since he identified his destination as "Local" and landed again at 9:36. He finally departed for June Lake, CA at 10:02AM.

May 7th was a Thursday; he might have been going to June Lake for a long weekend. June Lake and surroundings was a popular destination for anglers, hunters, and hikers. Beery built a cabin on a small island in nearby Silver Lake and landed his plane on the meadow area adjacent to the lake.

Besides his two landings at Glendale, Beery also visited the Davis-Monthan Airfield twice, signing the Register there in 1928 and 1929, flying the Travel Air NC9015.

The Beery family were aviation-minded as well as theater-minded (brother Noah was also an actor). Beery owned nine airplanes between 1927 and 1939. He starred in several films that featured aviation. What was it like to be with Beery when he was filming one of his aviation adventures? At the link is an article from Popular Aviation, July, 1935 (PDF 2Mb) that describes the experiences of actors, film crew, spectators and hosts when Beery filmed his 1935 "West Point of the Air" at Randolph Field, TX.

Beery's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there to learn more about him and his airplanes. He served as honorary referree for the 1939 Bendix Trophy race. He carried Transport certificate T3298.

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