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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ALLEN GEORGE RUSSELL
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Allen Russell appeared once in the Colorado Springs Register, on Thursday, July 13, 1933. He flew the Stinson SM-8A he identified as NC930W, S/N 4098. He carried two unidentified passengers. They arrived at Peterson Field from Denver, CO and cited their destination as Denver. The airplane owner was identified as Jay P. McCoy and Russell's transport pilot certificate number was noted as T11403. No other details of the flight are forthcoming from the Register.
Russell was born May 16, 1900 in Fallbrook, CA. He was born into a large family. His first U.S. Census was in 1900, which was counted on June 6th that year. He was about two weeks old. His family included his father Allen (age 45), mother Mary A. (38), brothers Joseph O. (17) and Hartwell C. (15), sisters Maria (13), Dolly A. (10), Mary R. (8), Esther E. (5) and Candace L. (2).
Russell had a distinguished career in aviation, both civil and military. His complete biography is out west at the Clover Field Register Web site. Please direct your browser to that link for the complete story.
Russell also appeared three time in the Clover Field Register. He was a corporate pilot for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner group of publications. Russell flew West on November 24, 1987 at Bakersfield, CA. He was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea in Morro Bay, just south of San Simeon.
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