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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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PITCAIRN PA-5 NC6708
NC6708 landed at Pitcairn Field and is signed in the Register six times. It was flown variously by three pilots, Emil Stefanik (landed January 1 and January 25, 1942), his brother Frank Stefanik, Jr. (landed December 12, 1941, January 4, 1942 and December 28, 1942 and by John A. Vansant (landed once on January 25, 1942). They identified their home bases as Horsham, Willow Grove, Philadelphia and Langhorne, PA. It appears they flew locally.
Below, a photograph of the airplane at Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove. From the look of the automobiles in the background, the date could be somewhere around when our pilots were flying it: early 1940s.
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It landed once about a decade earlier at Tucson, Monday September 12, 1932. The airplane was manufactured June 30, 1928.
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The good news today is that NC6708 is alive and well and under restoration at a shop in New Jersey. A chain of custody summary for NC6708 was provided to me in 2008 by then airplane owner Stephen Pitcairn. The full technography for NC6708 is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link, and that chain of custody, as well as many photographs, is posted there. At right is the removable windshield for the airplane showing the original color, which was accented with cream stripes.
Although Stephen Pitcairn has since passed away, the airplane is still in the Pitcairn family, now owned by David Pitcairn who is overseeing the restoration. Photographs of the restoration are at the site linked above, as is a link to a video of Mr. Pitcairn describing the restoration and some of the special features of his PA-5.
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