OTHER RESOURCES
Some of this information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.
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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 NC394H
NC394H was a Lockheed Vega 5, serial number 87. It was manufactured in June, 1929. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp B engine of 450HP (S/N 1615). It sold originally on July 5, 1929 to the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corporation, a Lockheed distributor based at Detroit, MI.
Schlee-Brock sold the airplane to Dr. Walter M. Cross of Kansas City, MO on July 8, 1929. Cross and his brother headed the Kansas City Testing Company. They were also inventors and developed a method of cracking crude oil into gasoline. But they also were interested in getting into air transport, licensing NC394H to Dr. Walter M. Cross, President, Mid-Continent Air Transport, Inc.
Cross paid $19,450 and the airplane was delivered directly to Kansas City from the factory in Burbank, CA. Interestingly, it was delivered by Register pilot Herbert D. Putnam (landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield and twice at Parks Airport).
NC394H landed once at Colorado Springs on Sunday, August 25, 1929 at 1:30PM. It was flown by Kenneth Eugene Gabbert. He carried three unidentified passengers. They arrived from Kansas City, MO enroute to Seattle, WA.
On May 29, 1930 the airplane was sold to Cross Airways, Inc. of Kansas City. This reads like a transfer of assets more than a sale. Regardless, the airplane did not live much longer. It crashed on July 10, 1930 at Aransas Pass, TX. The pilot was Gene Gabbert, who carried five passengers who also lost their lives. Please direct your browser to Gabbert's link for details about Cross, Gabbert, his passengers and their fatal crash.
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