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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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President (as of the upload date of this page) Andy Heins of the National Waco Club sent the images at left. Andy  runs the day to day business of the Club, and we should all thank him for the effort he expends to help us understand better the Waco aircraft that were signed so long ago in the Registers of Delta Mike Airfield, Inc.

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WACO EGC-8 NC19354

This airplane was manufactured January 20, 1938. It appeared once as a three-year old airplane in the Pitcairn Field Register, on Tuesday, December 30, 1941 at 3:15PM. The solo pilot was Theodore F. Steiner who cited his home base and destination as Wings Airport, Blue Bell, PA.

The good news about this airplane is that it still exists and is on display at the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, NM, courtesy of the National Waco Club online photo collection, below.

Waco EGC-8, Contemporary Photograph (Source: Heins)
Waco EGC-8, Contemporary Photograph (Source: Heins)

NC19354 is a model EGC-8, S/N 5002. The manufacturer's specification cards below, courtesy of Andy Heins (right sidebar), describe the airplane as it left the factory. Note that it was originally painted Berry Ivory, not red as above. The upholstery matched. The sheet lists the models and serial numbers of all the installed instruments and accessories.

Manufacturer's Specification Sheet, Waco NC19354, January 20, 1938 (Source: Heins)
Manufacturer's Specification Sheet, Waco NC19354, January 20, 1938 (Source: Heins)

The second page of the manufacturer's specification sheet we learn that the new airplane was turned over to Register pilot Tex LaGrone on February 24, 1938. LaGrone was a sales agent for Waco, located at the time in Kansas City, MO. We also learn that the initial owner was Shannon J. Long of San Diego, CA (not a Register pilot), who purchased it on March 1, 1939, just a week after it was turned over to LaGrone.

Manufacturer's Specification Sheet, Waco NC19354, January 20, 1938 (Source: Heins)
Manufacturer's Specification Sheet, Waco NC19354, January 20, 1938 (Source: Heins)

Long, in turn, transferred the airplane back to La Grone a year later on March 15, 1940. LaGrone brokered it immediately to the Bridgeport Machine Company in Wichita, KS, thence to the Simmons Machine Tool Company in Albany, NY (Simmons today makes machines that install accessories, test, and finish railroad car wheels). While in Bridgeport's or Simmons' possession, the engine had a couple of engine exhaust collector rings replaced.

In April, 1941, our pilot Steiner acquired the airplane and kept it for about two years. WWII was raging in 1943 and this record makes no mention of NC19354 for the duration. A couple of months after the war, the airplane went to Otto Aviation Corporation, then to Harold Wolfinger and Coracoke Manteo Transportation Company, Baltimore, MD.

NC19354 has a fair Web presence, with several photographs available. I found one online reference that connected the airplane to its owner Ed Maliar of Bohemia, NY near 1963. If you can fill in the blanks in the chain of custody, or have other (preferably vintage) photographs, please let me KNOW. An undated photograph, courtesy of the National Waco Club online photo collection, is below.

Waco EGC-8 NC19354, Date Unknown (Source: Heins)
Waco EGC-8 NC19354, Date Unknown (Source: Link)

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