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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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RICHARD H. “DICK” DEPEW, JR.
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Richard Depew landed once at Willow Grove. We know little about his flight. He entered only his name, the date, May 17, 1932, and his home base, Forest Hills, NY. He told us nothing of his airplane or passengers or where he was going. A good bet at that time is that his airplane was a Fairchild.
Depew landed once and signed the Register at the Davis-Monthan Airfield. He flew the Fairchild NC8003. Through the late 1920s and into the 1930s Depew held management positions at several high profile aircraft manufacturers, including Fairchild. He attended Cornell University studying mechanical engineering, but it is unclear from his record whether he ever earned a degree.
Depew is probably one of the earliest pilots to sign the Pitcairn Register. Attending flight training in France, he made his first solo flight on August 13, 1911. He received his license on August 22nd and received French Federation Aeronautique Internationale Certificate #641 on October 6th at age 19. Upon return to the U.S. he entered the military and he was a flight instructor and test pilot at Plattsburg, NY, as well as test pilot at McCook Field, Dayton, OH.
He was born May 20, 1892 at Plainfield, NJ. He died unexpectedly of cerebral hemorrhage on January 28, 1948 at age 55 at his home in Garden City, Long Island, NY. Richard Depew's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. He carried Transport pilot license T188 earned in 1928. Please direct your browser to his biography page for a relatively complete summary of his aviation experiences. He states, ""Since learning to fly 23 years ago, I have flown 128 types of airplanes, 3 types of autogiros, and a glider...."
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