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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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SILAS AMOS MOREHOUSE
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Silas Morehouse landed twice at the Grand Central Air Terminal. He was Chief Pilot for Western Air Express (WAE, later to merge with TWA). Although the tower Operator entered neither the airplane identification numbers nor his first name in the Register, it is almost certain "Morehouse" is Silas A., because of the aircraft he flew (Fokker), the cited owner of the ships (TWA Incorporated), and the route of flight recorded in the Register (destination Kansas City, MO). We might even guess at the registration number of his airplane(s): either NC333N or NC334N, both Fokker F-32s flown for about a year by TWA.
His first visit at Glendale was on March 23, 1931. He departed at 5:00PM with seven passengers and a crew of two for Kansas City. His second visit was on March 27, 1931. Again, he departed at 5:00PM for Kansas City. His passenger loading was not specified.
On February 18, 1934, as part of the introduction of T.W.A.'s new Douglas DC-3 transports, Morehouse joined a group of three other T.W.A. dignitaries to fly airmail across the U.S. A postal cachet commemorating the event is below, courtesy of Jessica Staines.
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A postal cachet is a stamped envelope issued to commemorate a record or an event that happened for the first time. The cachets were usually carried aboard the vehicle involved in the activity. The envelopes sometimes exhibited special graphics and were signed by the people taking part in the activity. In this case, Morehouse signed it, along with fellow Register pilots Larry Fritz, Harlan Hull and Paul Richter.
Morehouse, in 1937, earned his 10-year pin with T.W.A., pictured below as the event was covered in the T.W.A. internal magazine, Skyliner. The article summarizes his experience in the airlines and references his job as Chief Pilot for WAE, which he held when he landed at GCAT.
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L.W. "Lew" Goss, awarding the pin, and H.B. Grow were fellow Register pilots.
Silas Morehouse also landed once at Colorado Springs, CO on April 7, 1930 at 8:45AM. His biography, with additional images and news articles, is online at the Peterson Field Register Web site at the link. He was born Saturday, November 20, 1897 and passed away Tuesday, November 22, 1988 at age 91 years, 2 days. A collection of his memorabilia is at the Silas Amos Morehorse Photograph and Document Collection.
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