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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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STEARMAN NC8811
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This beautiful airplane is a Stearman Model Stearman C-3B, S/N 221. It landed twice at Clover Field. It visited first on Saturday, June 15, 1929 at 10:30AM. The solo pilot was Wayne H. Fisher, who arrived from somewhere in the Los Angeles area. He noted his destination as Los Angeles, too, and that he was the owner of his Stearman.
The second landing by 8811 was also flown by Fisher about a year later on Saturday, June 28, 1930. This time he carried one unidentified passenger, again from Los Angeles to Los Angeles. They landed at 5:30PM. He noted in the Register, "Aero Corporation of California" in the arrival column, thus defining the exact airport he arrived from. Fisher noted, too, that he flew with Transport pilot certificate T4242.
This airplane is special among Register craft, because it still exists and is in flying condition. According to the FAA online database, its airworthiness certificate is valid until June 30, 2018. NC8811 is owned by the Kelch Aviation Museum, Inc., Brodhead, WI.
A feature article about NC8811 appeared in the July 2017 Sport Aviation, the magazine vector of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkosh, WI. The article includes photographs of the airplane in flight, above left, as well as a couple of images of it during the 1930s a few years after its landings at Clover Field. You may view the article at the magazine link (PDF 2.3mB) above.
Separately, but contemporaneously with the article, NC8811 flew from Brodhead to the EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh (an hour flight) on July 17th. It won the 2017 award for “Outstanding WWII Era Open Cockpit Biplane” at the Fly-in. If you read the article linked above, you'll understand why this award category is not appropriate for NC8811. The Kelch Museum Web site features a promotional video of NC8811 in flight at the link. Full disclosure: the video will solicit contributions from you.
Also visible for a split second in the film is a view of the army Fokker 64233, flown across the United States by Oakley Kelly and John Macready, Wednesday May 2, 1923.
NC8811 also appeared once in the Oxnard Field Register, Albuquerque, NM on Thursday, September 12, 1929 (no Web site for Oxnard Field yet). Fisher was the pilot, arriving from Amarillo, TX and based at Los Angeles. The airplane also showed up twice in the Grand Central Air Terminal Register, both landings on Friday, May 8, 1931. The pilot was unidentified, but was probably Fisher.
There was no information about NC8811 at the Smithsonian, because it is still registered with the FAA and its records are still current and not archived.
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