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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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FRANK MONROE HAWKS

 

Frank Hawks, Date Unknown (Source: Heins)
Frank Hawks, Date Unknown (Source: Heins)

As with many youth of the era, Hawks became interested in flying when a barnstormer came to town. To give you some idea of how that "interest" developed, Hawks learned to fly at 18 and packed 214 point-to-point aviation records in his 23-year flying career. Do the math.

He thought he would apply his flying to the military. He joined and retired from the Army with the rank of captain, only to have served as an instructor. After the military he barnstormed over the country, flew mail and payrolls and stunted with air circuses.

Hawks landed twice and signed the Register at Colorado Springs. His first landing was on Monday, September 22, 1930. He was solo in NR1313, the Travel Air Mystery Ship. He was acting as the Pathfinder Airplane and Official Advance Plane for the Texas Co. on behalf of the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour.

His second landing was on Thursday, NOvember 7, 1935. This time he flew a U.S. Navy Boeing F4B4, A-9232. He was northbound from Pueblo, CO to Denver, CO. No reason was given in the Register for his flight.

Besides his two landings at Peterson Field, Hawks also landed once at Clover Field, once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, and he signed the Register at Parks Airport five times. His biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser to his biography page to learn about some of his aviation records. There are many links and other photographs there. Frank Hawks was born March 28, 1897 at Marshalltown, IA. He died on August 23, 1938 when a Gwinn Aircar he was flying struck power lines and crashed at East Aurora, NY. He carried Transport pilot certificate T98.

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