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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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GLOVER E. RUCKSTELL

G.E. Ruckstell (Source: SDAM)
G.E. Ruckstell (Source: SDAM)

 

 

Glover E. "Roxy" Ruckstell landed three times at Clover Field. He landed first in the Travel Air he identified as NC9966. Based in Los Angeles, he wrote "Grand Central" in the arrival column of the Register. His second and third landings, on Saturday, April 13, 1935, and Thursday, November 7, 1935, respectively, were in the Stinson model W he identified as NC12146. Please direct your browser to the airplane link to learn about this interesting airplane, which is still registered with the FAA and flying. He also brought this airplane through Tucson.

Ruckstell landed once with NC12146 at the Davis-Monthan Airfield on April 24, 1935. His biography is at the link on the Davis-Monthan Register Web site. It includes links and downloads that give insight into this intelligent and entrepreneurial pilot's activities. He was born May 5, 1891 and died May 28, 1963. He would have been old enough to appreciate the first Wright airplane flight, as well as the first flights of humans into space. He carried Transport license T10006.

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