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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ROSCOE TURNER

Roscoe Turner landed once and signed the Register at Pitcairn Field on January 15, 1928. Based at his home in Sandston, VA he was flying the big Sikorsky S-29, NC2756.

Roscoe Turner, 1935 (Source: NASM)
Roscoe Turner, 1935 (Source: NASM)

 

Turner also landed a few times at the Davis-Monthan Airfield in Tucson in different aircraft, including NC2756. Given the dates of his landings at Willow Grove and at Tucson (Thursday, February 23, 1928) we might assume that his visit at Pitcairn Field was early in his cross-continent journey that brought him through Tucson. Likewise, if you direct your browser to the link for the airplane above, you'll discover that Turner sold the airplane on April 3,1928 to the Caddo Company, Inc., Hollywood, CA, Howard Hughes, President.

Roscoe Turner was a premier air racer of th Golden Age. Photograph, left, captures his win of the 1935 Bendix Trophy. Please direct your browser to his biography link, below, to learn more about his race successes.

Turner flew far and wide, and we find his signatures in five of our Airfield Registers. He signed the Pitcairn Register once, he signed the Clover Field Register once, Peterson Field Register three times, Grand Central Air Terminal Register once and the Davis-Monthan Register four times. Turner's biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser to his biography for additional photos, including U.S. Postage cachets with his signature, and links to the airplanes he flew.

Roscoe Turner was born September 29, 1895, eight years before the first airplane flew. He died June 23, 1970 just before his 75th birthday, and just about a year after humans first walked on the moon. He carried Transport pilot certificate T388.

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