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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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ROSS G. HOYT

 

Ross Hoyt, July 13, 1929 (Source: Kalina)
Ross Hoyt, July 13, 1929 (Source: Kalina)

 

Ross Hoyt arrived at Pitcairn Field on April 4, 1928. Based at Washington, DC, he flew an unidentified Boeing PW-9. He was one of only 16 military pilots to sign the Pitcairn Field Register.

Besides a workmanlike command career in the Air Corps, Hoyt was a member of the "Question Mark" flight. The "Question Mark" crew flew in the Fokker C-2, 28-120, named the "Question Mark". Please follow the link to the airplane to learn about the significance of the "Question Mark" flight on New Year's Day, 1929.

Six-months after the flight of the "Question Mark," then Captain Hoyt was assigned an elapsed time flight from Mitchel Field, NY to Nome, Alaska during July, 1929. His airplane was a Curtiss Hawk with a Curtiss Conqueror engine. The airplane was named "Newalaska." The photograph at right was taken the day "Newalaska" was christened for the flight. Note the waxed moustache and the well-conditioned A-1 jacket. He completed the grueling 8,460-mile flight in 48 hours, flying day and night. His allotted six-hours of rest must have felt very brief.

Hoyt landed and signed the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register twice, once before his landing at Willow Grove (May 5, 1926), and once after (December 21, 1928). This last landing appeared to be part of a long cross-country flight from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. Hoyt's full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Brigadier General Hoyt passed away April 7, 1983. His official Air Force biography is at the link.

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