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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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F.K. BARON von KOENIG-WARTHAUSEN
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Frederick K. Baron von Koenig-Warthausen landed and signed the Pitcairn Field Register on May 16, 1930. Based at Roosevelt Field, NY, he flew the German-registered Klemm-Daimler, D-1794.
Barely six months earlier, on November 22, 1929, he had returned to Germany at the end of what was one of the most exhilarating flights of the Golden Age of Aviation in Europe. The Baron's full biography, with many interesting links, is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link.
If you follow the link to his biography, you'll discover that he was the first person EVER to fly an airplane around the world. Granted, he used ships to get him across the oceans, but the rest of the distance of his east to west circumnavigation of the globe was covered with a small airplane of the same model he brought to Pitcairn Field.
The challenges of his global flight were captured in a 1930 book he wrote entitled "Wings Around the World." It is an enrolling read, and is available now and then at online booksellers. At his biography link, above, are presented many photographs of him and his airplane during his voyage. The airplane he flew was the Klemm-Daimler D-1433.
I have no record of why he was in the United States flying Klemm aircraft just six months after he completed his round-the-world journey. If anyone does, please let me KNOW.
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