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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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BACH 3-CT-8 NC8069
NC8069 is signed in the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) Register 17 times between Sunday, December 14, 1930 and Monday, May 4, 1931. During that time it was used as a transport airplane by Gilpin Airlines, operated by C.W. "Bill" Gilpin. Please direct your browser to his page for additional photographs of Gilpin Airlines aircraft, as well as a link to motion picture footage of Gilpin. NC8069 served as a poster airplane on Gilpin's timetable.
A large trimotored aircraft, NC8069 regularly flew the route from Glendale to Agua Caliente, Mexico via a stop in San Diego, CA. It punctually arrived at Glendale mid-morning and departed south, and late afternoon arrived returning from the south. Below, courtesy of Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. friend John Underwood, is a sharp photograph of NC8069 parked in front of the GCAT main building. Note the engines are running.
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In the original photo, you can see three men in fedoras standing at the windows at the top of the tower. Perhaps one of them was the tower Operator Wright, Lygum or Roscoe, all of whom recorded NC8069 in the Register at one time or another during 1931.
Besides its 17 entries in the GCAT Register, the airplane also is signed in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register on July 27, 1929. The full technography for NC8069 is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there for additional photographs, and a record of the other air transport companies for which it flew during the Golden Age.
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