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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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
PHOTOGRAPH & DOCUMENT COLLECTION
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Silas Amos Morehouse was was one of the more accomplished aviators of the Registers. He passed into our view in the Peterson Field Register in 1930. Please click over to Morehouse's biography link above to learn about the circumstances of his landing. He was born Saturday, November 20, 1897 and flew West Tuesday, November 22, 1988 at age 91 years, 2 days. He flew with Transport pilot certificate T399.
He made his marks in civil, military and commercial flying. He enjoyed a varied career, including the military (earned wings at Kelly Field, TX, 1925), air mail, corporate work and with the airlines.
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Collections come from many sources and from many locations. This one comes from Yakima, WA by way of Churchill's Book Store. The owner, Mr. Wheeler, contacted me stating that he had just acquired a box of photos and other items belonging to Morehouse. I received permission to scan them and Bob Woodling, who lives near Yakima, agreed to do the work for us. His scanning setup at Churchill's is at right. A good number of Collections come to us in just this way.
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Collections also come in various states of organization: sometimes in albums; sometimes loose in plastic tubs as at left. Morehouse's was a little of both. One monogrammed, rough-edged album is pictured at left. The initials "S.A.M." are on the cover.
The Collection exhibited here contains only a portion of the available material organized as follows. Please click of the headers below to examine the categories of his collection.
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PILOT LOG BOOKS: Morehouse left us seven of his logbooks in which he recorded each of his flights. Relevant to the Peterson Field Register, Morehouse landed here during a record setting early transcontinental voyage by a passenger-carrying commercial liner.
As a brand new airplane he flew the Fokker F-32 NC334N to a landing at Peterson Field on April 7, 1930 at 8:45AM. The complete itinerary is included in one of his logs and is exibited here. Please also direct your browser to the link for NC334N to learn about the context of that flight and the history of this large, short-lived airplane.
In 1934, he also made a record cross-country flight with Eddie Rickenbacker. Details from his log book are also at the link.
PHOTOGRAPHS: Morehouse left us 44 photographs of different subjects and sizes. The portrait of Morehouse, above, was among them.His reasoning for collecting and saving the photographs is anybody's guess. They are exhibited at the link in roughly chronological order.
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DOCUMENTS: We have 18 documents that meant something to Morehouse. They include his pilot certificates, as well as letters signed by Register pilot Charles Lindbergh, and by Eddie Rickenbacker. His pilot certificate in effect at the time he landed at Peterson Field is at right. All are exhibited at the link
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