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YOUR PURCHASE OF THESE BOOKS SUPPORTS THE WEB SITES THAT BRING TO YOU THE HISTORY BEHIND OLD AIRFIELD REGISTERS
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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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WHY THIS PAGE?
Simple, if you recognize one of the Register names; if one might be your aunt or uncle, cousin, grandmother or grandfather, or if you're familiar with one of the aircraft that landed, or you know something about the places or events cited in the Register, I ask you to share that information.
To do this, I solicit and incorporate testimonies from users of the site. I begin our dialog through this form. Likewise, if you have comments on site operations or ergonomics, please let me know through this page.
That way users of the site make the site's data and knowledge bases "open source" and "evergreen". Said another way, YOU contribute to the content, appearance and logical development of the site.
I want to develop this Web site as a research tool and resource for students and investigators of Golden Age aviation history who want more than what's available in textbooks.
That's what this form is about.
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Your Webmaster and creator of the Web sites of Golden Age Airfield Registers, G.W. Hyatt, performs public speaking, research and writing exclusively under the auspices of his non-profit company, Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Through contemporary multi-media, he publishes and celebrates the people, aircraft, places and events that were recorded between 1925 and 1942 in the old Registers. Please direct your browser to this table to learn more about his suite of Web sites. All proceeds from book sales (left sidebar), donations (right sidebar) and speaking engagements go to source these Web sites.
Hyatt is an instrument-rated, commercial pilot and A&P mechanic. He earned his Airframe & Powerplant certificates in 1996. Attending night classes while working full-time, he graduated summa cum laude with an associate degree in engineering sciences, and a speciality in aviation maintenance.
He retired in 1996 from a midwest consumer products company, where he held positions in management systems, product development, environmental affairs and pharmaceuticals. He earned numerous awards for innovation, teamwork and publication. Before that he was professor of biological sciences at a midwest university.
He acquired copies of the various Registers (table, below) over the past decade. His life has not been the same since he first opened them and viewed their dusty, handwritten pages.
Since 2000, Hyatt has spent a couple of weeks each summer engaged in research activities at the National Air & Space Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Work on behalf of the Registers has taken him coast-to-coast in the U.S. to visit museums, archives, historical societies, personal photograph, artifact and document collections, and, in some cases, with the actual aircraft and people who are signed in the Registers between 1925 and 1942. These on-the-ground visits are supplemented by email correspondences (and some personal visits) with relatives of Register signers.
These are supplemented by contacts by individuals who own some of the vintage airplanes, or have other information about the people, aircraft, places and events that find mention and origin in the Registers. They have led to many constructive international email correspondences with site visitors not only in the U.S. and Canada, but also in many European countries, India, South America, China and Mexico.
The Web site research has led to the publication of numerous articles and books by your Webmaster. The books are listed in the left sidebar. Please direct your browser also to the PUBLICATIONS button at the top of this screen to view a sampling of some of his other writings. In most cases you can download from there PDF copies of the articles.
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This Web site is, in turn, part of a suite of six virtual windows that illuminate old Airfield Registers from around the United States during the Golden Age of flight. The following sites are open to the public. They exhibit and analyze for you 21,667 total airfield traffic days across six Registers. Please explore and enjoy them all!
TRAVEL HUB FOR GOLDEN AGE AIRFIELDS
Clover Field, Santa Monica, CA WWW.CLOVERFIELD.ORG December 31, 1928 to August 4, 1939 Number of days Register was open = 3,878 Number of landings recorded = 798 over 35 pages Web site went online June 13, 2013 |
Parks Field, East St. Louis, IL |
Davis-Monthan Municipal Airfield, Tucson, AZ WWW.DMAIRFIELD.ORG February 6, 1925 to November 26, 1936 Number of days Register was open = 3,581 days Number of landings recorded = 3,704 over 218 pages Web site went online May 5, 2005 |
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO WWW.PETERSONFIELD.ORG February 22, 1929 to August 1, 1940 Number of days Register was open = 4,178 Number of landings recorded = 672 over 29 pages Web site went online June 13, 2013 |
Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, CA WWW.GRANDCENTRAL AIR TERMINAL.ORG December 14, 1930 to October 8, 1935 Number of days Register was open = 1,759 Number of landings recorded = NN over N pages Web site went online June 13, 2013 |
Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove, PA WWW.PITCAIRNFIELD.ORG (You're here!) October 22, 1927 to January 25, 1942 Number of days Register was open = 5,240 Number of landings recorded = 328 over 21 pages Web site went online June 13, 2013 |
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