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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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THE SILAS AMOS MOREHOUSE COLLECTION LOGBOOKS
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According to information cited on his biography page on this site, Silas Morehorse joined Western Air Express (WAE) as a pilot and part time mechanic on April 1, 1927. In the interest of time and effort, not all of his log books were scanned and compiled for this Collection.
Rather, the following four images represent important flights in 1930 near the time he landed at Peterson Field. This first page is from February 15-March 9, 1930. It includes a certification by Morehouse that he had accumulated 2,559 hours and one minute of flight time through the end of February 1930. At right is an image of seven of his log as they appeared in May 2017 in Yakima, WA.
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The bottom half of the page documents that he performed test flights for the Fokker company of the F-32 NC130M (not a Register airplane, S/N 1202. The five test flights were with "mostly full load," and several flights were made "with Mr. Fokker aboard plane." Seven of these large Fokker F-32s were produced and NC130M was the second one off the line.
These flights were a big deal, since they carried a Department of Commerce (D.C.) inspector "McKenny" and were flown "for D.C. test for ATC on F-32." The A.T.C., or Approved Type Certificate, formalized and first promulgated in 1927, contains the details of construction of the airframe, load limitations, type of engine(s) and propellers that may be installed, and required placards that must be visible. Note there were only 1-2 short flights per day, some carrying up to 18 passengers. All were flown between 2,000 and 7,000 feet; some to Albany, NY from the factory location at Teterboro airport in New Jersey. The flight on March 29th involved NC333N.
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We know that because, interestingly, on the evening of March 29th, NC333N suffered an accident at Albany which was reported by Morehouse via telegram to the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce at 8:10PM, below (this document is part of the official FAA record for NC333N and is not part of the Morehouse Collection).
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Despite the accident, the ATC was earned, because the next log page documented the F-32 in commercial service and placed Morehouse at Peterson Field. Relevant to his presence at Peterson Field, Morehouse landed and signed his name in the Register on Monday, April 7, 1930 at 8:45AM. He flew NC334N to Peterson Field. His flights that day were tersely documented in his pilot log, below: Denver to Colorado Springs to Pueblo, CO to Albuquerque, NM. Although I have record of him landing a dozen times at Albuquerque during 1928-29 (he was based there with TWA later in July 1931) in a copy of the Oxnard Field Register, he did not land with an F-32.
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In California, Morehouse and TWA began passenger service in the F-32 between Los Angeles and Oakland. In the Grand Central Air Terminal Register there are 31 landings recorded for NC334N during May-June 1931 and 42 landings by NC333N between December 1930 and July 1931. Some of these early flights are logged by Morehouse below.
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Note the last entry on May 13th. One of the two F32s operated by WAE was ferried on only three engines from Bakersfield, CA back to Alhambra.
A little over four years after Morehouse ferried the F-32 to Los Angeles, he teamed with Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Air Lines, to attempt a cross-country record for tranport aircraft. The following two images document the time either side of the record flight.
They departed Burbank, CA for Floyd Bennett Field New York on November 8, 1934. Morehead's log pages document that flight. That flight on November 8th was made in 11 hours, 51 minutes and 15 seconds, and established the record. It was flown from "Los Angeles - Newark." Their point of departure was actually Burbank Airport, which is in Los Angeles. Then, in order to establish the record, they had to circle the terminal building at Floyd Bennett Field, then fly to their landing at Newark, NJ.
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After November 8th, it appeared Morehouse remained in Newark for at least the next couple of weeks. He spent part of that time "checking" about a half-dozen other pilots in the DC-2. Whether these flights were for checkout in the DC- 2 type, or instrument check flights is not clear from his log entries. On November 13th, he flew a Curtiss Condor from Washington, DC to Newark after flying a DC-2 to Washington the day before. His total flight hours to-date were calculated by him to be 5,951. He had accumulated about 2,500 since February 1930 (see above).
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