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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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STEARMAN C-3-B NC8809

 

Stearman NC8809, Netherlands, 1929 (Source: Loep)
Stearman NC8809, Netherlands, 1929 (Source: Loep)

 

NC8809 landed once at Pitcairn Field April 15, 1929, flown by its usual pilot, Ross Hadley. He identified his homebase as "Hollywood, CA" and did not cite a destination.

I say "usual pilot," because the airplane is also logged twice in the Clover Field Register and three times in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register, and each time it was flown by Hadley. The technography for NC8809 is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link.

Photograph, right, was taken on a "Vluchtsportdag," a sports flying day at Schiphol, Amsterdam. Hadley flew throughout Europe and beyond with this airplane, traveling to the far east. The airplane wore a couple of different paint schemes, including a patriotic paint scheme with stars and stripes.

At one point Hadley was president of Pacific Aeromotive Corp., a distributor of Wright engines and an aviation accessories maintenance shop based at Los Angeles Mines Field. He carried Transport pilot certificate T3189.

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