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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 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 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 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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Art Goebel's Own Story 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 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) 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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LOCKHEED VEGA 5B NC161W

THis airplane was a Lockheed Vega model 5B, manufacturer's construction number 127. It was manufactured during July, 1930. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp C engine of 450HP (S/N 3167). It was a seven-place, closed monoplane.

NC161W landed twice at Colorado Springs. Its first visit was on Wednesday, May 30, 1934. The pilot was W.A. Moores, carrying three unidentified passengers. They arrived from Ft. Worth, TX, but Moores did not enter a home base or destination. No purpose was offered for the flight, but we know it was a commercial flight under the auspices of Bowen Air Lines based at Dallas, TX Love Field (see below).

Its second landing was two months later on Sunday, August 5, 1934 at 4:40PM. The pilot this time was Perry F. Hotchkiss who was Bowen's chief pilot at the time. He was solo, arriving from Houston, TX. No destination or purpose for his trip was offered in the Register.

NC161 flew on Bowen Air Lines routes between 1930 and 1936. It was converted to a Vega 5C under ATC 384 as of April 22, 1935. In 1936 it was sold to the Chemical Process Company of Breckinridge, TX. I have no record of its use by the Company. In 1942 NC161W was sold to Charles H. Babb, an aircraft broker based at the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, CA.

Babb sold it on December 9, 1942 to Lineas Aereas Mineras, S.A. (LAMSA) of Mazatlan, Mexico. The price was $8,000. It entered Mexico via Brownsville, TX and was assigned Mexican registration XA-DAM on January 23, 1943. It was flown on LAMSA routes until 1944, and then on LAMSA's successor, Lineas Aereas Mexicanas, S.A., from 1943 to about June of 1949. In June, 1949 NC161W was reported to be "dismantled." No further information.

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