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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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NORTHROP ALPHA 2 NC933Y
This airplane is a Northrop Alpha 2 (S/N 5; ATC# 381) manufactured November 10, 1930 by Northrop Aircraft Corporation, United Airport, Burbank, CA. It landed at least 30 times at the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) between April 1931 and January 1932. It was identified as “T.W.A. #4”. The first landing was on Wednesday, April 21, 1931. As with all the landings at GCAT, no record was entered of pilot names. Most arrivals were from Kansas City, MO from the late morning to mid-afternoon. Most destinations were cited as Kansas City, MO, and, for a few of the flights, in the remarks column of the Register was written, "mail."
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NC933Y was one of at least ten Alphas to land at GCAT during 1931. The fast and efficient Alphas were used for air mail transport by Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) through 1935. One incident involved a weather diversion documented in the Air Post Journal, December 1932, left. Pilot Williams' pilot certificate number was actually T1002 according to this REFERENCE.
Significantly, NC933Y landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ on Friday, April 3, 1931. Its more complete technography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser to the link to learn more about this accident-prone airplane.
I have no original photographs of this airplane. If you can help, please let me KNOW. An aerial photograph taken from the cockpit of NC933Y is at Register pilot Orie Coyle's Web page at the link. This view only shows the starboard wing of NC933Y.
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