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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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CLARENCE EVERET CLARK

 

Clarence Clark, Date Unknown (Source: Eravi)
Clarence Clark, Date Unknown (Source: Eravi)

 

Clarence Clark landed and signed the Peterson Field Register twice. Both times he flew the Ford 5-AT-C NC418H. Owned by the Phillips Petroleum Company, the airplane was named "Wollaroc II" and was the sister ship of the "Woolaroc" that carried Art Goebel and William V. Davis across the Pacific to win the Dole Prize in August, 1927. Please direct your browser to Goebel's Web page to learn more about the "Woolaroc" and the Dole.

Clark was hired as Chief Test Pilot at Travel Air and moved to the Travel Air facility at Wichita, KS in 1925. His test pilot duties at Travel Air were long-term and prodigious. His work began in 1925 with serial number 10 and a contemporary business magazine cited that he had tested 667 planes for Travel Air as of October 1928, and that was just for the past year. Imagine test flying over two brand new airplanes per working day for that period. If you think about it, he very likely test flew every vintage Travel Air still in existence today, including the "Woolaroc," which hangs on display at the Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, OK.

After he left Travel Air during the fall of 1930, he worked for the Phillips Petroleum Company at Bartlesville, OK, remaining with them of 37 years as their Chief Test Pilot. His job kept him mostly in Bartlesville. His first landing at Peterson Field was on Friday, July 22, 1932 a couple of years after he began work for Phillips. His second landing was on Monday, September 5, 1932. He arrived from Bartlesville and Colorado Springs was his final destination. He left no record in the Register of the purpose of his visits.

Besides his two landings at Colorado Springs, Clarence Clark landed once each at Parks Airport in East St. Louis and the Davis-Monthan Airfield in Tucson, AZ. His biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. He was born July 12, 1904. He passed away on December 31, 1988 at age 84. He carried Transport pilot certificate T334.

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