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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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KNOLL KN-1 NC8861

This airplane was a Knoll KN-1, S/N 102. It landed at Peterson Field once, on Saturday, April 27, 1929 at 1:00PM. It was flown by Russell Dick. He carried one unidentified passenger. Based at Wichita, KS, their destination was Wichita. No reason was given for their flight.

Below, a starboard, rear view of the airplane. The date and location are unknown, as are the identities of the people. The gentleman, sporting a goatee, appears to be pointing out a feature of the airplane to the woman. The photograph below of NC8861 appears at the link. Factory colors were were blue for the fuselage and orange for the wings and horizontal stabilizer.

Knoll KN-1, NC8861 (Source: Web via Woodling)

Further, the fuselage of 8861 was painted with, "Dr. C.E. Richter Bloodless Surgery." The vertical stabilizer announces the name of the airplane, "The Francis J." The airplane had plywood-clad wings. Each of three passenger compartments had its own door.

A second photograph of NC8861, below, is at the link. This shows 8861 at Airway Sales & Service in Wichita. The same lettering is on the fuselage.

Knoll KN-1, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Web via Woodling)

Biographical information about Felix Knoll, the manufacturer of the airplane, is at the link. And if you click on this link, the focus is on Knoll's airplanes. These links are worth exploring in detail. Other photographs of 8861 are at aerofiles.com at the link.

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