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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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STEARMAN 4E NC663K

The good news is this airplane is still registered with the FAA and is flying as if the upload date of this page. Below is a current photograph of it as it flew in Wisconsin during the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) fly-in at Oshkosh, WI during 2017. Additional photographs of NC663K are available online at the link.

Stearman NC663K, 2017 (Source: EAA)
Stearman NC663K, 2017 (Source: EAA)

NC663K is a Stearman Model 4E, S/N 4005. It landed at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) at least seven times between March and July 1931. The tower Operator, A.J. Lygum did not write much information about these flights in the GCAT Register. The pilot's name is unknown, as are the home base, points of origin and destinations.

As of the upload date of this page, NC663K is owned by a partnership in Nevada. Its airworthiness certificate is valid until 2021. The information below is from an online blog about Stearman aircraft. I include the text here, because I am not sure how long the information will remain on the blog.

The saga of NC663K began on November 12, 1929 when William Keith Scott placed a verbal order for a Stearman Model 4E with Rogers Aircraft of Los Angeles California. Basic list price was $16,000. With optional equipment such as reserve fuel tank, retractable landing lights, dual flare tubes, radio and wheel pants, the final price rose to $18,107. Powered with a Pratt & Whitney WASP 420 horsepower engine it was delivered in February, 1930. Keith Scott flew his Stearman until he sold the airplane on August 4, 1942 to Malcolm Carberry who operated a fleet of cropdusters in Brawley, California. It became a cropduster, then was left to deteriorate.

Ben Scott's Dad

It was restored by well known antiquer Robert Penny, Jr. and placed in a museum at Morgan Hill, California, from 1972-1977. In 1977, NC663K was purchased by Dan Wine. Several years later, an old friend sent Keith Scott a newspaper article about the aircraft and that led to contact with Dan Wine. Negotiations began in earnest for the Scott family to acquire the Stearman. The old ship is back with her family to stay, and Ben Scott, ( Keith Scott's son) spends many happy hours with her in the Reno skies. She is as beautiful as ever.

 

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