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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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THE PEOPLE OF THE PITCAIRN FIELD REGISTER

For its size and geographic location, Pitcairn Field attracted a number of the interesting aviators of the Golden Age. Aircraft manufacturers, record-setting pilots and military pilots are represented.

At Pitcairn Field during the period the Register lay open for pilots to sign, 328 pilots signed, with 305 landings by civil pilots, 16 by military pilots and 6 by female pilots. Clearly, when most pilots flew, it was generally with someone else on board. Identified solo flight accounted for only 62 landings.

Unlike the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register which is a part of this suite of Register sites, the Pitcairn Field Register did not have a specific printed column devoted to passenger identities. Therefore, passengers are under represented (30 identified) or represented only by numbers, e.g. "4" passengers, rather than by name. This is too bad, since some flights carried passengers for whom we will never know their names.

But, the fundamental question answered and linked through this page and the dropdown menus below is: Who were the real people represented 80 years ago by the hastily scrawled, long-hand signatures on the yellowed pages of the Register? Please use the dropdown menus below to select pilots or passengers from the database, and to learn about their lives.

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Regardless of how they were represented in the Register, pilots and passengers alike were intrepid, early adopters of flight, experiencing relatively primitive conditions of comfort, scheduling, aircraft reliability, federal regulation and accommodations. Aviation was different in the late 20's and into the 30's from what it is today. Most cockpits were open, navigation aids and charts were few, and fuel stops and commercial housing were just organizing to support the flying population.

Despite the conditions, by exploring their biographies we can determine that they were flying for pleasure, on business, participating in various aeronautical events, military maneuvers and training, ferrying aircraft and, probably many other reasons known only to themselves.

Please understand that many PItcairn Field pilots have no biographical information YET associated with them. The reason being that I just do not know who they were, or I just haven't had time or resources to research them. If you want to kickstart your journey through my site, please check "What's New on the Site" (link at top and bottom of each Web page) to see links to pilots and passengers I have recently uploaded. Follow those links for examples of the types of extended information I envision for all the people on this site.

You can access information about any of the pilots or passengers who signed the Register. ALL their names are listed in the dropdown menus above, because YOU, the site user, might know of them and I would like you to share what you know with me via CONTACT WEBMASTER , or via the FORM provided. With your permission, I'll add your information to the Web site with appropriate credit to you.

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