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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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JOHN HERALD CORDNER
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John Cordner was born on January 4, 1893 in Bethany, NE. He appears in his British ferry command uniform, left, ca. 1941, courtesy of John Underwood.
His first visit at Colorado Springs was on Thursday, April 13, 1933. He carried two unidentified passengers in an unidentified Flamingo airplane (probably NC9487). The Flamingo was owned by U.S. Airways.
His second landing was in Flamingo NC9487 (model G-2-W, S/N 11) on Saturday, July 22, 1933. He carried five unidentified passengers. Both times he and his passengers arrived from Kansas CIty, MO and identified their destination as Denver, CO.
Although Cordner's flights through Colorado Springs were simply day-to-day passenger flights flown by U.S. Airways, his Flamingo is of great interest. A little over four years after Cordner brought it to Peterson Field, NC9487 was crash landed on a plateau in Venezuela by Register pilot Jimmie Angel. At the link are photographs and background information on the airplane and its fate.
Through his flying career Cordner was a military pilot, airmail pilot, transport pilot and test pilot. In his 50s he served during WWII as a ferry pilot for the British. He died on March 5, 1944 in Prestwick assigned to the British ferry command during WWII. According to information at FindaGrave, he died of pulmonary thrombosis. He is buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in England.
Cordner also landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. His full biograpy, with U.S. Census data, photographs and other resources, is at the link.
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