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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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RUPERT RALPH (Rupe) LEOHNER
Rupe Leohner arrived at Pitcairn Field once, on Saturday, March 25, 1933. He identified his home base as "Penny Harris Airport." Outside of that, he didn't leave us any information in the Register.
Loehner became a TWA pilot in 1940 and retired with that airline in 1967. With TWA, he flew the New York to Paris route. He is mentioned a few times in the TWA Skyliner, a company employee magazine. On November 10, 1941 he is pictlured with a fellow pilot and two locals gazing skyward, below.
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The days of shining lights on airplanes is over. Contemporary issues with lights and airplanes have to do with people on the ground pointing cheap lasers at aircraft. Today, this is a Federal offense; not a "hobby."
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The Skyliner for February 24, 1955 reported, left, navigational aid given to a lost U.S. Air Force hospital plane over Greece.
The Skyliner for May 3, 1956, right, documented the delivery of motion picture film to the U.S. of Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier's wedding in Monaco.
Another Skyliner article from 1962 had him in radio contact mid-Atlantic with a TWA weather plane three miles below him on the trans-Atlantic route.
Leohner graduated in June, 1930 from John Harris High School in Harrisburg, PA (reported in the Harrisburg Telegraph, June 13, 1930). I have little else about Leohner's life or career, military service or birth and death dates (he passed away during 1969, but I don't have the day and month or location). I found nothing about Penny Harris Airport. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
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