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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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.---o0o---
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WACO INF NC637Y
Waco INF NC637Y (S/N 3372) was manufactured April 16, 1931 by the Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, OH. It appeared four times in the Register of the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT). For all these visits the tower Operator left us with no information about the pilots or passengers, or locations of home bases or destinations. The landings were on May 15, 1931 at 4:45PM, May 18, 1931 at 3:39PM, July 13, 1931 at 9:03AM and July 15, 1931 at 3:24PM. Below, courtesy of Andy Heins (left sidebar) is a photograph of NC637Y.
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A unique photograph is below. It shows three sister ships, NC619Y, NC625Y and NC637Y aloft in formation above scattered clouds. All were INF models and all were manufactured either April 15 or 16, 1931. It's probably safe to say they were all painted vermilion with silver wings and horizontal stabilizers.
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Below are the Manufacturing Specifications for NC637Y at the time of manufacture, April 16, 1931. Other than color, and the engine and propeller brands, there is little other useful information.
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Below is information regarding the chain of custody for the airplane from 1931 to, roughly, 1944. Note that from the Troy Flying Service warehouse the airplane was first registered to the Mercury Flying Club in Burbank, CA on March 2, 1932. This date was well-after the airplane last landed at GCAT (see above). It did not remain long with Mercury, because in September, 1932 it moved on to Floyd R. Martin in Santa Ana, CA. Relatedly (pun intended), Floyd Martin was the brother of Register pilots Eddie and Johnny Martin. The three brothers founded their own airfield at Santa Ana in 1923. Details are at Eddie Martin's link.
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NC637Y also appeared once in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ, Saturday, September 24, 1932.
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