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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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GEORGE C. POMEROY

 

George Pomeroy, Date & Location Unknown
(Source: SDAM)
George Pomeroy, Date & Location Unknown (Source: SDAM)

 

George Pomeroy landed once at Colorado Springs, on Sunday, May 14, 1939 at 4:30PM. He carried six unidentified passengers in the Douglas aircraft he identified as NC1000. They arrived at Peterson Field from New York, NY. Pomeroy recorded no destination or purpose for this flight. Photograph, left, is courtesy of the San Diego Aerospace Museum Flickr Stream (SDAM). It shows Pomeroy during the late 1920s when he flew the U.S. Airmail (see below).

Interestingly, there were three aircraft during the 1930s with the registration number NC1000, all manufactured by Douglas. The first was a model M-3, later M-4, S/N 645. Initially, this NC1000 was operated during the late 1920s by National Air Transport, Chicago, IL, as a mail carrier. If this landing had been made a decade earlier, I could see Pomeroy carrying the mails. He was a mail pilot. By 1939, however, the Douglas M-3/M-4 was old technology and superceded by faster, more suitable aircraft.

Then there is Pomeroy's stated passenger load. The Douglas M-3 or M-4 was an open cockpit, single-pilot biplane. It had a mail and cargo compartment ahead of the cockpit that was sometimes informally modified with a plank seat to carry one or maybe two passengers among the mail. It never was designed to carry six passengers. So the M-3 was not the airplane Pomeroy brought to Peterson Field.

The second NC1000 was a Douglas DC-2, S/N 1324. It was manufactured during May, 1934 and had a passenger capacity of greater than six. It was certainly a possibility for Pomeroy's airplane. Below is a photograph of DC-2 NC1000 from the link. Notice the Cities Service Gas & Oil Company logo on the front fuselage. Incidentally, a few years earlier, Pomeroy, along with copilot Lewis Brewer (not a Register pilot as far as I can determine), flew NC1000 in the 1936 Bendix Race. They, "Finished  fourth after getting stuck in the mud at Wichita."

Douglas DC-2 NC1000, Date & Location Unknown (Source: Link)

The third NC1000 was a Douglas DC-3A, S/N 3275. It was manufactured February 3, 1941, so wasn't available for Pomeroy to fly to Colorado Springs in 1939. A photograph of the DC-3 NC1000 as it was later re-registered N41831, is at the link.

With his airplane identified as the DC-2 pictured, a quick summary identifies the milestones in Pomeroy's aviation career(s). In 1913 he allegedly was a helper for Orville and Wilbur Wright. During WWI, he learned to fly with the Army Air Service in France. After the war, in 1924, he joined the Air Mail Service, flying between Omaha, NB and Cheyenne, WY (photograph, above). He flew the airmail from August 1924 to August 5, 1929. In 1930 he flew transport aircraft with Ludington Airlines, which eventually became Eastern Airlines, and inaugurated scheduled passenger service between Washington, D.C. and Newark, N.J. During WWII, he flew in Hawaii and the South Pacific for the Air Transport Command. After WWII, he became chief pilot of the Swiftlite Aircraft Corporation.

A more detailed biography for Pomeroy is at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. There you will find news articles and internal and external links to additional information about Pomeroy and his flying experiences. He flew with Transport pilot certificate T1622.

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