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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 Model RNF NC839V
NC839V (S/N 3255) is signed once in the Willow Grove Register, on Wednesday, June 18, 1930 (about a month after it left the factory, see below). It was flown (solo?) by R.H. Taylor, who cited his home base as Central Airport, Camden, NJ. He entered no other information in the Register. I have no photographs of the airplane.
The manufacturer's specification sheet for this airplane is below. NC839V left the factory on May 22, 1930. It was minimally equipped with a Heywood starter and a metal propeller. It left the factory with a Warner engine, S/N 720. It was painted all over vermillion with silver wings. In this respect, it was very similar to sister ship NC677N.
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This airplane was transferred from the manufacturer to the Wings Corporation of Philadelphia, PA. It received several upgrades to the landing gear and wings before transfer to Cornelia Jones of chesnut Hill in Philadelphia. It went through three more transfers before WWII. I don't know if it was taken over and flown by the military for courier or liaison work during WWII. Regardless, in 1945 it was registered to an owner on Long Island, NY.
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NC839V appears in no other Registers. Information about the Waco company is at the link. NC839V is not registered with the FAA today. I do not know its fate after its visit to Pitcairn Field. If you can help fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
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