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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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MONOCOUPE MODEL 90 NC509W
This airplane was a Monocoupe Model 90, S/N 542. Note in the article below that the author identified it as a model 110, S/N 5W41. That information is correct for NC508W, but 509W is as I have identified it.
Regardless, NC509W was signed in the Colorado Springs Register on Monday, July 30, 1934 at 9:00PM. It was flown by Don Ansly, who was also identified as the owner of the airplane. He carried a single, unidentified passenger. They arrived at Peterson Field from Amarillo, TX and recorded their destination as Denver, CO. No purpose was given for their flight. 509W appears in no other Registers.
Techical specs gleaned from the two pages below state that NC509W was a two-passenger airplane powered by a Lambert R-266, 5-cylinder engine of 90HP. It was a two-place, closed cockpit, land monoplane. There were several variations of the Model 90, depending upon engine installation and accessories such as wheel fairings and engine cowling.
NC509W weighed 899 pounds empty and was allowed a gross weight of 1,350 pounds. That left 451 pounds for pilot, passenger, fuel, oil and baggage. With full fuel of 30 gallons (at 6 pounds per gallon = 180 pounds) and 2.5 gallons of oil (at 7.5 pounds per gallon = ~19 pounds) another 199 pounds was subtracted from the gross weight. That left 252 pounds for two passengers and their baggage. With full fuel, this was more a one-person-plus-baggage airplane.
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The bottom right blue log page recorded some maintenance and inspection actions during May-July, 1937. The rudder of NC509W is shown below. It appears that the rest of the airframe was scrapped due to corrosion.
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A sales brochure describing the features of the Monocoupe 90 (for 1932) is at the link.
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