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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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PERRY F. "Pop" HOTCHKISS

Perry Hotchkiss landed at Peterson Field once, Sunday, August 5, 1934 at 4:40PM. He was solo in Lockheed NC161W. Arriving from Houston, TX, he did not enter a destination in the Register.

Hotchkiss was chief pilot for Bowen Air Lines, operating out of Love Field in Dallas, TX. The Lockheed was one of Bowen's fleet. His nickname, recorded in the Register, was "Pop," but note the nickname "Puss" in the news article, below, and the misspelling of his name in the headline.

I have no information about the life or activities of pilot Hotchkiss. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.

Hotchkiss was killed in an airplane crash (airplane unidentified) on March 4, 1938. He was hired to transport three oil executives from Dallas, TX to the Texas gulf coast at Corpus Christi. Fuel starvation led to a forced landing attempt that was spoiled by the airplane's landing gear catching in power lines short of the landing spot. The airplane flipped over, crashed, and Hotchkiss and two of his passengers were killed. His third passenger survived with major injuries. The Whichta Falls, TX Daily Times of March 5th detailed the circlumstances, below, headlined, "Three Former Wichitans Die in Plane Crash."

Wichita Falls (TX) Daily Times, March 5, 1938 (Source: Woodling)
Wichita Falls (TX) Daily Times, March 5, 1938 (Source: Woodling)

Hotchkiss also landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, sometime between August 24 and September 4, 1931 (there was a hiatus in dates in the Register during that period). Please direct youir browser to the link to discover the circumstances around his visit there.

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