YOUR PURCHASE OF THESE BOOKS SUPPORTS THE WEB SITES THAT BRING TO YOU THE HISTORY BEHIND OLD AIRFIELD REGISTERS
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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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Dudley Steele landed at Glendale three times during March and April, 1931. Each time he flew solo in the Stearman NC6439. The owner of the airplane was identified as the Richfield Oil Company. Steele was director of aeronautics for the company and, as such, landed three times and signed the Parks Field Register, and signed the Davis-.
Steele entered aviation during WWI in the Army air service. He was stationed at various flying fields, and after the war ended was assigned to the U.S. Navy stationed at Miami, FL. He was a flight instructor.
Steele was a prodigious visitor to the Registers of the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. group. He visited Parks Field, St. Louis, MO three times, and he signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 13 times between May, 1928 and February, 1934. Ten of his Tucson landings were with NC6439. If you visit the airplane's link, above, you'll note that Steele flew it for 1,400 of its 1,800 or so hours. Steele's biography, with additional photographs and links, is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Dudley Steele was born May 18, 1892 and died during July, 1968 at Palm Desert, CA. He was 76 years old.
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