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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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The Bragunier family pronounces their name "Bra-GUN-yer."

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CLARENCE "ACE" BRAGUNIER

 

Clarence "Ace" Bragunier (Source: Bragunier Family)
Clarence "Ace" Bragunier (Source: Bragunier Family)

 

Ace Bragunier landed at least 24 times at Glendale. A well-known west coast flyer, the tower Operators A.J. Lygum and others identified him in the Register as simply, "Ace." He flew four airplanes across his 24 landings. Three of them, two Bachs and a Ford, were identified as belonging to Gilpin Airlines, a successful west coast passenger and freight service. Register pilot C.W. "Bill" Gilpin was the owner of the line that ran mostly from Los Angeles to San Diego to Mexico, Douglas and Tucson, AZ.

Bragunier flew for Gilpin the Bach NC850E and NC8069, and Ford NC5577. Most of his itineraries were from Glendale to San Diego, then on to Agua Caliente, Mexico.

The link to 8069 is especially interesting, because the second image down on that page shows the airplane in front of the Glendale terminal with the control tower in the background. If you look closely at the top of the tower you can see a man in the window. Perhaps he is Operator Lygum, who logged the airplane into the Register on many of its visits.

Ace was born Clarence Bragunier on May 20, 1902. He died on April 14, 1950. Besides his many landings at Glendale, he landed four times at the Davis-Monthan Airfield and signed the Register there. His biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there to view over 60 additional photographs of Ace, his family and his airplanes, as well as to download two of his pilot log books. These books record his flights through Glendale, as well as through Tucson and elsewhere.

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