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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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NX/NC127W NORTHROP ALPHA 2
This airplane was a Northrop Alpha 2, later converted to a model Alpha 4/4A. It landed five times at Glendale during April, 1931. It was operated both by the Northrop Corporation and by Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA). As was characteristic of the Glendale Register, the pilots' names were not listed by the tower operator ("Lygum"). The only additional information we can find in the five entries is that Lygum noted "Several hops all day" in the margin of the entry for Tuesday, April 7, 1931. All the landings were solo.
Below, courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM), are two views of the airplane when it was registered "NX" (experimental), and one view of it with "NC" (commercial) registration. In all the photographs, NC/NX127W was owned by Northrop.
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Note the "lookers" and the military aircraft in the background. The second view, below, was probably taken during the same photo session. Note the position of the tail wheel, the military craft in the background, and the position of the air filler valve holes in the port wheel.
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The third view is of NC127W. Still owned by Northrop, the livery was changed when compared to the two images above. The pilot standing by is unidentified.
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NC127W iced up and became uncontrolable while on a mail run over Pennsylvania on December 11, 1933. The pilot, Dean W. Burford, abandoned the airplane by parachute. The airplane crashed, Burford landed safely, and the mail was recovered. The circumstances of that flight are described in a contemporary newspaper article posted at Burford's link. I have no other information about this airplane. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
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