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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 MODEL 3 AIR EXPRESS, NC/NR3057
NC/NR3057 was a Model 3 Air Express monoplane. It had a parasol airfoil and a single, open cockpit behind the wing. This airplane was S/N 75, with a manufacture date of May 13, 1929. It was painted black with silver trim. It was the first Lockheed aircraft to have wheel pants installed. It was used originally by the Lockheed Aircraft Company as a demonstrator with at least three different engine models. The full technography for the NC3057 is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link.
The airplane landed three times at Peterson Field, wearing both versions of its registration number, flown by two of the foremost Golden Age pilots. It landed on Sunday, December 14, 1930 and on Friday, August 26, 1932 piloted by Roscoe Turner. One day between August 13 and 16,1934 NC3057 was flown to Peterson Field by Clyde Pangborn.
Below, NC/NR3057 stands behind Roscoe Turner and Loretta Young on the ground at Las Vegas, NV. It does not wear the black paint and silver trim, rather it is painted in Gilmore Gasoline livery, featuring the famous lion that traveled with Turner. You can see clearly the open cockpit, wheel pants and parasol wing structure of the airplane.
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I do not know the date of the photograph, however. This photograph is shared with us courtesy of cowboy poet and writer Hal Swift, whom you will discover at the link, spent some time in Indianapolis, IN where Turner ran a business at the city airport. He knew Turner personally. Please direct your browser to Hal's link to learn about and enjoy some of the writing he does.
The gentleman on the left is James Cashman, who was a significant figure in the early days of Las Vegas development. The automobile spare tire is printed with "Cashman, J. Garage Las Vegas, Nevada." A more full description of Cashman's role in Las Vegas history, and his auto/truck transportion business, is at his link.
NC/NR3057 also appears in the Registers of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ and the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, CA.
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