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Your copy of the "Davis-Monthan Airfield Register" with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. ISBN 978-0-9843074-0-1.

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OTHER BOOKS FOR YOU

"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. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. ISBN 978-0-9843074-2-5.

"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.  Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. ISBN 978-0-9843074-1-8.

"Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race" is available at the link. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. What was it like to fly from Oakland to Honolulu in a single-engine plane during August 1927? Was the 25,000 dollar prize worth it? Did the resulting fame balance the risk? For the first time ever, this book presents the pilot and navigator's stories written by them within days of their record-setting adventure. Pilot Art Goebel and navigator William V. Davis, Jr. take us with them on the Woolaroc, their orange and blue Travel Air monoplane (NX869) as they enter the hazardous world of Golden Age trans-oceanic air racing. ISBN 978-0-9843074-3-2.

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THIS IS IT; THE ORIGINAL

NO WHERE ELSE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB IS THERE A SITE THAT CELEBRATES THE HISTORY OF THE OLD DAVIS-MONTHAN AIRFIELD, ITS REGISTER, PEOPLE AND AIRPLANES

THIS PAGE PRESENTS THE MOST RECENT UPDATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE SITE AND OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ADDITIONS & CHANGES TO WEB PAGES, NEW DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE, DATABASE AND SITE DESIGN REVISIONS

TEXTS, IMAGES & NOTES:

03/12/10 PILOTS Boyd Monteith Shelton, E.L. Remelin information uploaded to the server.

03/11/10 NEW INFORMATION AT PILOT John P. Wood. NEW PHOTOGRAPH at PILOT Harold "Hap" Russell. PILOTS Elwood R. "Pete" Quesada, Gerald Nettleton information uploaded to the server.

03/10/10 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at Pitcairn Autogiro NC10780, AIRPLANE Bach NC8069.

03/09/10 PILOT Charles Sherman "Casey" Jones information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOTS John M. Miller, John Livingston, AIRPLANES Fokker NC3317, Fokker NC7888, Travel Air NC12311.

03/08/10 PILOT John H. Jouett information uploaded to the server.

Your Webmaster's EAA Timeless Voices video interview, recorded in April, 2008, is available embedded on dmairfield.org at the link. It is also available at the EAA Web site. If you choose this latter option to view it, when the player loads, click the RECREATIONAL button (you might have to click on the small right-hand arrow on the menu bar) and scroll to HYATT, GARY. Click PLAY to hear and see the interview.

03/06/10 PILOTS John B. Hinchey, J.E. Hart information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOT Albert Hegenberger.

03/05/10 PILOTS Dean W. Burford, John H. Cordner, AIRPLANE American Gyro Crusader NX14429 information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOT L.G. Fritz, C.W. Gilpin.

03/04/10 PILOT Frank E. Busch information uploaded to the server.

03/03/10 PILOT Daniel Webb "Tommy" Tomlinson information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at AIRPLANES Fairchild NC14364, Lockheed NC522K.

02/25/10 NEW FAMILY PORTRAIT at PILOT Bessie Owen, NEW PHOTOGRAPH at AIRPLANE Curtiss Robin NC7499.

02/19/10 NEW INFORMATION at PILOT E.E. Harmon.

02/18/10 New information at AIRPLANES Laird NC10402, International F-17 NC4892.

02/16/10 AIRPLANE MANUFACTURER Ford information uploaded to the server.

02/10/10 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOTS Hunter Brothers. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS & INFORMATION at PILOT Jimmie Angel.

02/09/10 NEW INFORMATION at AIRPLANE Fokker F10-A NC456E.

02/08/20 I'm informed that the oldest New Standard D-25 in existence, NC9194, which visited Tucson December 6, 1929, is flying again. You can see photographs of it at the owner's Web site.

02/03/10 PILOT Corliss C. Moseley information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS of the Stinson Detroiter "Pride of Detroit" at PILOT William Brock (& Ed Schlee).

02/02/10 AIRPLANE Travel Air NC6045, PILOT Mary Von Mach information uploaded to the server.

02/01/10 PILOT Neva Paris, PASSENGER Donald W. Douglas information uploaded to the server.

02/01/10 Your Webmaster is invited to participate in the AUTHOR'S CORNER program at the Sun 'n' Fun International Fly-In & Expo held April 13-18, 2010 at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland, FL. The AUTHOR'S CORNER will be held conveniently at the Florida Air Museum on the Fly-In property. I will be there from 9AM-3PM daily on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 15, 16th, and 17th. I will be signing and selling my four books (see the left sidebar, or go to this link), with 25% of profits going to support the Museum and 75% going to support www.dmairfield.org. If you're at the Fly-In, please stop by the Museum and visit.

01/31/10 PLACE Alhambra, CA information uploaded to the server.

01/30/10 AIRPLANES Travel Air 2000 NC6045, Travel Air E-4000 NC647H information uploaded to the server.

01/29/10 NEW INFORMATION at AIRPLANES Ford trimotor NC428H, Curtiss Robin NC75H.

01/28/10 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOT Charles W. Meyers.

01/25/10 NEW INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS at PLACE Grand Central Air Terminal.

01/23/10 PILOTS Peter Brooks, Aline Brooks and Lee V. Brusse information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOTS Clare Bunch, Ace Bragunier, Bob Buck.

01/22/10 PILOT Eddie Bacque information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOTS Leslie Bowman, Martie Bowman, Eddie Bellande.

01/21/10 PILOT Charles W. Meyers information uploaded to the server. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOTS H.H. Arnold, E.E. Aldrin, PASSENGER Peter Beasley. AUTOGYRO NC10780 .

01/16/10 NEW PHOTOGRAPH at PILOT Mildred Morgan.

01/14/10 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND INFORMATION at PILOT Stafford L. "Casey" Lambert.

01/13/10 PILOT Jimmie Mattern information uploaded to the server.

Please note: Some of our free PDF downloads available in the REFERENCES have been installed on the Kindle eReader device with success. I am interested in knowing how these downloads install and operate on eReaders. Please direct your browser to the link to see how you can help. Thanks to Mike Mason for letting us know of his Kindle experience.

01/12/10 NEW INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS at AIRPLANES NC8730, NC730K and at PILOTS James E. Granger and Al Wilson.

01/11/10 A FREE BOOK REVIEW for "Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race" is available at the link. Permission is hereby granted to use this text and image, as is, without changes in wording, preserving hyperlinks, in other print or Web publications. 65 KB PDF, about 550 words. New information at PILOT Roy C. Kirtland.

01/11/10 Your Webmaster, Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. and www.dmairfield.org are cited in the credit roll of a new video, "From Jennys to Jets: The Story of One of America's Unknown Aviation Pioneers, Captain John McDonald Miller." Please direct your brower to the link to view a trailer posted on YouTube. Some of the photographs and film footage used in the video appear on John Miller's Web page.

01/10/10 AIRPLANE Sikorsky S-38 NC8005, PILOT Wilmer L. Stultz information uploaded to server.

01/06/10 AIRPLANE Butler Black Hawk NC730K information uploaded to server.

01/04/10 Site Visitor Testimonials updated (PDF 150kb).

12/31/09 PASSENGER/PILOT Janet M. Roberts information uploaded to server. New information at James E. Granger and Clema Granger.

12/28/09 NEW IMAGE at WACO UBF-2 NC12443.

12/25/09 PLACE Lunken Airfield, Cincinnati, OH information uploaded to server. Happy Holidays!

12/22/09 AIRPLANE Boeing FB-1 A-6891, PILOT Roy C. Kirtland information uploaded to server.

12/21/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND INFORMATION at Lockheed Orion NC960Y.

12/18/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS and information at Lockheed Vega Model 5 NC7440.

12/17/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPH at Buhl Air Sedan 7705.

12/10/09 NEW INFORMATION AND VIDEO LINK at Lockheed Vega NC869E.

12/05/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPH at LOCKHEED VEGA NC7044.

11/29/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPH at LOCKHEED VEGA Air Express 3 NC522K.

11/28/09 AIRPLANE Travel Air S/N 160, "City of Oakland" information uploaded to server.

11/09/09 PILOTS Harry A. Dinger and Apollo Soucek information uploaded to server.

11/08/09 NEW INFORMATION at PILOT Max Conrad.

11/04/09 NEW MOTION PICTURE of Al Wilson-John Miller mock dogfight at the 1932 National Air Races, Cleveland, OH. Invoke the film by clicking in the menu to the right of the video screen at the link. dmairfield.org now offers over a dozen movies of people and aircraft relevant to the Register. Take some time to explore the others at the link.

"Winners' Viewpoints",
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11/02/09 AIRCRAFT Goodyear Blimp NC18A information uploaded to server.

11/02/09 NEW BOOK available. Title: "Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race" authored by your Webmaster with a Foreword by William V. Davis, III. Please direct your browser to the Press Release (PDF 26kb). Profits from book sales all go to support www.dmairfield.org.

11/02/09 PASSENGER/PILOT Margery Doig information uploaded to server.

10/27/09 NEW IMAGES and INFORMATION at Pitcairn NC96W uploaded to server.

10/23/09 NEW MOTION PICTURE of William T. Piper, Jr. performing a walkaround of the Piper J-2 Cub. Invoke the film by clicking in the menu to the right of the video screen at the link. dmairfield.org now offers a dozen movies of people and aircraft relevant to the Register. Take some time to explore the others at the link.

10/20/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPH at Lockheed Vega NX7429 uploaded to server.

10/18/09 NEW PDF DOWNLOAD at Monosport NC113K uploaded to server. See the right sidebar on that page.

10/16/09 New photographs of the original site of the Chollas Heights Global Naval Radio Transmitting Facility uploaded to server.

10/15/09 NEW INFORMATION at PILOT Marion Grevemberg.

10/14/09 AIRPLANE Stearman NC8054 , NEW INFORMATION for Sikorsky NC2756 uploaded to server.

10/12/09 NEW INFORMATION at AIRPLANE Travel Air NC5426 uploaded to server.

10/09/09 NEW INFORMATION about U.S. Border Patrol officer Robert R. Budlong uploaded to server.

10/08/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND INFORMATION at PILOT Ed Hedeen, NEW PHOTOGRAPH at AIRPLANE Lockheed NC107W uploaded to server.

10/07/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at PILOT E.E. Harmon uploaded to server.

10/06/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS at AIRPLANE Pitcairn NC96W.

10/05/09 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND INFORMATION at pilots Clyde and Eldon Cessna uploaded to server. NEW PHOTOGRAPH at pilot John M. Miller (see near the bottom of his page). NEW PHOTOGRAPHS AND INFORMATION at Fokker NC800E and Pitcairn NC549K and Pitcairn autogiros NC10780 and NC10781 uploaded to server.

09/29/09 NEW IMAGES at Waco ATO NC8584 uploaded to server.

09/28/09 NEW MOTION PICTURE of Waco ATO NC8584 uploaded to server.

09/19/09 Added a new Web page entitled, "THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY". Please direct your browser to the link to find out why. Added NEW PHOTOGRAPHS to PILOT E.E. Harmon.

09/18/09 New IMAGE & INFORMATION at Lockheed Vega NC858E. New MOTION PICTURE of Pitcairn NC6708, and new PHOTOGRAPHS at Pitcairn NC6708.

PLEASE NOTE: The dearth of activity over the past month or so is due to travel (research trip to the Smithsonian, and visits to a couple of relevant people and airplanes in the northeast), and to a massive failure of my Adobe software that grounded me for about three weeks until I got it all sorted out.

08/01/09 NEW INFORMATION at Boeing Model 40 NC842M.

CHANGES OLDER THAN SIX MONTHS ARE HERE.

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DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE:

PLEASE NOTE: As of October 26, 2007, downloads available from this site are listed exclusively at the REFERENCES section.

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DATABASE:

06/29/09 DATABASE updated and uploaded to server.

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WEBSITE:

09/18/09 Propellers of another type: The host service for this Web site is "green". The company, in the Boston, MA area, operates over 800 servers and offsets all electricity use for computing and office infrastructure with wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates. This prevents the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.

05/04/09 Today is the fourth anniversary of www.dmairfield.org. There are biographies of 267 (+22% this year) Golden Age pilots and passengers, technographies of 429 (+6%) of their aircraft, descriptions of 31 airfields (+11%). There are nine moving picture sequences online. The site now contains 6,156 files (up 20% in one year), 2,740 folders (+19%), and it is 1.24GB in size (+37%). There have been about 129,875 visits (about 30% are returning visitors) to the site in the past four years (+21% this year), with over 5.3 million page hits. An additional 31 email contacts were made by relatives of pilots and passengers who signed the Register. This makes a total of 115 relatives over the four years.

04/01/09 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 8,268 in March. Another record high. Thanks!

03/01/09 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 7,321 in February. Another record high. Thanks!

01/04/09 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 7,028 in December. That’s the most visitors for any month since the site went global on May 4, 2005. The previous high was 6,692 in November, 2008. Thanks, everybody.

12/03/08 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 6,692 in November. That’s the most visitors for any month since the site went global on May 4, 2005. The previous high was 6,012 in July, 2008. Thanks, everybody.

08/01/08 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 6,012 in July. That’s the most visitors for any month since the site went global on May 4, 2005. The previous high was 5,737 in September, 2007. Thanks, everybody.

05/04/08 Today is the third anniversary of www.dmairfield.org.  There are biographies of 218 (+35% this year) Golden Age pilots and passengers, technographies of 406 (+26%) of their aircraft, descriptions of 28 airfields (+14%). There are nine moving picture sequences online.  The site now contains 5,145 files (up 31% in one year), 2,303 folders (+30%), and it is 904MB in size (+26%).  There have been 107,416 visits (about 26% are returning visitors) to the site in the past three years (+23% this year), with over 2.6 million page hits.  An additional 28 email contacts were made by relatives of pilots and passengers who signed the Register.  This makes a total of 84 relatives over three years.

03/03/08 Ten new navigation buttons were added to the top of each web page. Privacy Policy updated.

02/19/08 www.dmairfield.org is now a tax-exempt, public charity in accordance with U.S. Internal Revenue Code 501(c)3.  Your contributions to Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. are deductible under section 170 of the Code.

10/01/07 Total visits to dmairfield.org were 5,738 in September. That’s the most visitors for any month since the site went global on May 4, 2005. The previous high was 4,000 in March 2007. Thanks, everybody.

05/04/07 Today is the Second Anniversary of www.dmairfield.org.  Our second year was very productive.  The power of the world-wide web is alive and serving well the purposes of the history of our Golden Age of Aviation!

To-date, on www.dmairfield.org, there are biographies of 141 Golden Age pilots and passengers, histories of 302 of their aircraft, descriptions of 25 airfields, and seven moving picture sequences online.  These all document activities related to the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936.  The site has grown.  It now contains 3,542 files (up 41% in one year) in 1,602 folders (+43%), and it is 669MB in size (+72%).

There have been 57,320 visitors to the site in the past two years (+60%).  An additional 26 contacts were made with your Webmaster by relatives of pilots and passengers who signed the Register.  This makes a total of 56 relatives over two years who, through the World-Wide Web, have “found” their kin in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register.  What’s more, these relatives have provided unique images and information that enhance the biographies of their kin on the site: the kind of information you don't find in the history books. My personal thanks to all of them (you know who you are).

An article was published in the 50th Anniversary volume of the Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society last spring describing the operations of Standard Air Lines through Tucson during the late 1920s.  You may download that article here.

Separately, an e-commerce website, www.oldairfield.com, was officially brought online January 2, 2007.  Profits from oldairfield.com are directly donated to support the research activities and web hosting for dmairfield.org.

Among the range of products available at oldairfield.com, three books have been published this year about the people, airplanes and events documented in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register.  Purchase of these books, likewise, supports the research and maintenance of dmairfield.org.  They are available for your enjoyment at these links:

1) “The Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield 1925-1936”.  This book contains clear copies of all 218 pages of the Register, as well as three chapters of cross-reference tables arranged alphabetically and numerically that make it simple to identify and find individual pilots and aircraft.

2) “Art Goebel’s Own Story” by Art Goebel.  This autobiography of a Register signer provides insight into the aviation, logistical and entrepreneurial skills of pilot Art Goebel.

3) “Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan Airfield 1925-1936”.  This book examines 850 landings by military aircraft at the Airfield.  It provides biographical insight into the lives of some of the pilots, as well as black & white photographs of their airplanes.

If you have questions or comments regarding www.dmairfield.org, please use this FORM to contact me.

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2006 Wolf Aviation Fund Grant

04/23/07 WWW.DMAIRFIELD.ORG is proud to be a recipient of the 2006 grant from the Wolf Aviation Fund. This generous gift will be used to support research on the pilots, airplanes and events that are the primary subjects of this website, and to improve the general operation of the site.

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03/31/07 Total visitors to dmairfield.org topped 4,000 this month. That’s the most visitors for any month since the site went global on May 4, 2005.

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05/04/06 Today is the First Anniversary of this website. To-date there are biographies of 107 pilots/passengers, histories of 256 aircraft and descriptions of 25 airports online. This total of 388 entities represents, on average, over one entity per day being placed online to document activities at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. There have been 22,082 visitors to the site in one year. For the nerds among you, the site contains 2,088 files in 908 folders, and it is 187MB in size.

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05/04/05 FINAL DESIGN Site opened for global view at 1415 hours EDT. Happy Birthday, Lyn.

Cutting the Ribbon

 

 

Your Webmaster invoking the mouse click that made the site go global.

“Studying the microcosm is one way to gain knowledge about the global.”

 

 

 

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ITEMS BELOW ARE CHANGES/ADDITIONS TO DMAIRFIELD.ORG OLDER THAN SIX MONTHS BEFORE PRESENT.

FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, I LEFT THE LINKS OPERATIONAL:

July, 2009 As of January 31, 2010, I find that about 30% of my effort to maintain dmairfield.org is now spent adding visitor-contributed items to pages that already exist. This is not surprising, because as I add more new biographies of people and technographies of aircraft to the site, the more "hits" are delivered by search engines to potential site visitors. I very much appreciate all the communication and sharing of information and photographs by visitors, and I honor their contributions by including them as quickly and efficiently as possible. Thus, the time happily spent updating. My point is this: From now on, I will maintain a record of those additions in this section of changes that are older than six months before present. That way, you'll be able to keep track of additions of brand new biographies and technographies, as well as additions and changes to existing pages.

PILOT George Washington Faw, AIRPLANE Curtiss Robin NC75H, PASSENGER George Maves,

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS OR INFORMATION at PILOT Ernest Emery Harmon, at PILOT J.B. Alexander, at PILOT H.D. Campbell, at PILOT Paul L. Foster, at PILOT Cecil Allen, at PILOT Zantford Granville, at PILOTS Tom Colby and Joe Crosson. At AIRPLANE Douglas XO-1, 28-194. NEW VIDEO at Fairchild NC106M. THE LEE LYSLE WILLEY PHOTOGRAPH AND DOCUMENT COLLECTION was uploaded to the server.

As well, July 20, 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the first visit by humans to the surface of the Moon. It is celebrated on dmairfield.org here, with a grateful nod to all the pilots and aircraft of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register whose pioneering efforts and shoulders to stand on make our space flight possible.

May-June, 2009 PASSENGER Erle P. Halliburton, AIRPLANE Ford 5AT-C NC428H, PILOT Frederick M. Trapnell.

March-April, 2009 PASSENGER Robert Bruce Moon, PLACE Casa Grande, AZ, PILOTS James V. Piersol, S. Dale Page, Edward Graf Schultz, Lee Lysle Willey, AIRCRAFT Fairchild 24 NC14364, Alexander Eaglerock A-1 NC6846.

February, 2009 PLACES Gerbracht Airfield, Ames, IA, Nogales Municipal Airport, PILOTS Ned Schramm, Harry Graham, Douglas T. Kelley, AIRPLANES Vought SU-2 A-9103, Boeing P-12B 29-333, Boeing P-12B 29-334, Boeing P-12 29-353, Boeing P-12 29-354, Boeing P-12 29-355 PILOTS Harold D. Campbell, Wilford Gerbracht, Millard F. Harmon, Ennis C. Whitehead, Robert Martin, Victor E. Bertrandias, Eugene Beebe, John D. Corkville, Gerald E. Brower, Hugh M. Elmendorf, Leon George Larson, Leonard D. Weddington PASSENGER Roy L. Fisher.

January, 2009 PLACE Minneapolis, MN Wold-Chamberlin Field PILOTS Harry Weddington, R.L. Baumgardner, Benton R. "Lucky" Baldwin, Ralph F. Skelton, Walter L. Seiler EVENT 1929 National Air Races.

December, 2008 WEB SITE Code of Ethics uploaded to server. AIRPLANES Fairchild 42 NC106M, Standard D-25 NC9194, Pitcairn PA-5 NC6708, PILOTS Newman Wadlow, Truman Wadlow PLACES Brooks Field, San Antonio, TX, Randolph Field, TX, Boston Municipal Airport, PASSENGER L. Wallace Springer, MANUFACTURERS of Fokker , Inland, Keystone, Ryan & Waco, Master Manufacturer Hub.

November, 2008 PILOTS Claire K. Vance, Lake Littlejohn, M.E. Grevemberg, Mary Victor Bruce, Sterling Rohlfs, George J. Holmes, United States Border Patrol, Paul T. Adams, Stafford L. (Casey) Lambert. AIRPLANES Fokker NC535E, Pitcairn NC96W, Pitcairn PA-7 NC843N, Lockheed Sirius NC16W, Travel Air NC12311. PLACE Seattle, WA.

October, 2008 AIRPLANES Ryan Brougham NR1766, PILOTS A.L. "Al" Henley, Frederick Trubee Davison, PLACES Lockport, NY (Lee-Van De Mark Airport), Mitchel Field, LI, NY., Farmingdale, LI, NY, Floyd Bennett Field, Roosevelt Field, NY, Kansas City, MO.

August-September, 2008 AIRPLANES Command-Aire NR996E and NR997E. SEPTEMBER -- Vacation!!

July 2008 07/31/08 PILOTS Amelia Earhart (INCOMPLETE), Ben Lyon, Edward C. Black, Thomas W. Blackburn, Jr., Albert Boyd, Roy Wilson, William T. Ponder;PASSENGER Mrs. F.N. Brooks.

June 2008 OBITUARY John McDonald Miller, PILOTS Harold F. Blackburn, Alfred "Al" Gilhousen.

May 2008 AIRPLANES Stinson W NC12146, Fairchild NC81M, PLACE St. Louis, MO information uploaded to server.

April 2008 PILOTS Claire Fahy, George S. Armistead, L. Morton Bach, A.W. "Art" Killips, Milo Oliphant, Rex K. Stoner. NEW MOVIE at MOTION PICTURES, Lockheed Vega NC898E. AIRPLANES Travel Air NC8842, Aeromarine-Klemm NC39K.

March 2008 AIRPLANES Waco NC9558, Ford 7583, Stearman NC667K. PILOTS Ross G. Hoyt, Gordon S. Barry, John W. Martin, "Fearless Freddie" Lund, D.C. Warren, Reginald L. Robbins, Ruth Elder, Clarence E. Clark, Francis D. "Chief" Bowhan, Joe Crosson, Bob Starkey, Bert Saxby. COLLECTIONS Charles Cooper Photograph and Document Collection. Week of March 3rd Web page format changes made across the entire site.

February 2008 AIRPLANES Travel Air NC6142, NC7863, NC32M, NC9772, NC3318, Fairchild NC4770, Travel Air NC6477, Travel Air NX9017, Waco NC13423, Waco NC4278, Travel Air Type 6000 NX4765, Curtiss Robin NC389K, Travel Air E-4000 NC676H, Keystone LB-7 28-391, Buhl Airster NC8458. PILOTS Ruth Wells Barron, Lee Newton Brutus, Nancy Harkness Love, Frank A. Armstrong, Leslie P. Arnold, Frank M. Andrews, Victor H. Strahm, Edwin E. Aldrin, Sr., George H. Brett, Cecil A. Allen, Nathan Farragut Twining, George Zinn, James A. "Jack" Woodruff (?), Howard Leyland Young. Tax-exempt 501(c)3 status is conferred on www.dmairfield.org. Please see above.

January 2008 PILOTS John P. Wood, Irvin A. Woodring, Beckwith Havens, Burdette S. Wright, W.R. Wolfinbarger , Robert A. Wolf (?), Clarence "Ace" Bragunier; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS master link hub; MANUFACTURERS Curtiss and Douglas; PASSENGER Peter Beasley; AIRPLANES Pitcairn NC549K , Fairchild NC107M, Bird BK NC48K; NX71E, Alexander Eaglerock NC6376, Ogden Osprey PC NR398V, Ogden Osprey PC NX187N; Monocoupe NC7326; Alexander Eaglerock NC6314 , Stearman NC6439.

November-December 2007 AIRPLANES Stearman NS-7548, Stinson Junior NC458H, Douglas DST NC16007, Sikorsky NC2756, Ford NC3443 (not signed into the Register, but placed at Tucson in 1928 by movie film), California "Cub" NC137W, Laird NC10402, Great Lakes NC840H, Stearman NC793H, Ryan B-5 NC314K, Fokker F10-A NC456E, Fairchild FC-2 NC8001 Meteor NX848E, Curtiss F6C-1 Hawk A-6969, Motion picture of A-6969, Curtiss F6C-3 Hawk A-6972, Boeing F3B-1 Squadron ID 2-F-18 , General information page about Inland aircraft, Inland NC252N. PASSENGER Carl B. Squier. PILOTS Henrietta Sumner, Billie Rice.

October 2007 PILOTS Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Robert A. Purcell, Clema M. Granger, James E. Granger (INCOMPLETE awaiting input from the Granger family), J. Warren Smith, Ralph T. Royce, J.G. "Tex" Rankin, Harold Neumann, C.E. Crumrine, Clifford C. Nutt, Erik H. Nelson, Russell Maughan, Gladys O'Donnell PASSENGER L.B. "Breezy" Cox. AIRPLANES Waco NX5673, Waco NC9580, Waco NX3132, Waco NX5533, Waco NC8508, Waco NC12443, Waco NC12449, Waco NC12456, Waco NC21M, Waco NC8584, Waco NC11440 , Waco NC11489, Waco NC12455 , Waco NC13424, Waco NC13578, Waco NC14086, Waco NX7527, Waco NC863V, Waco NC652N, Waco NC619Y.

September 2007 COLLECTIONS Klein Archive of Aviation Photographs, AIRPLANES Fairchild NX5501, Consolidated 26-301 , Boeing PW-9C 26-371, Curtiss 27-64, Fokker Transport 28-120, Douglas 28-129, Douglas 28-194, Douglas 29-179, Ford C-4 29-219, Kreutzer NC243M, Bach NC8069, Fokker NC5614, Douglas A-7204, Curtiss Condor A-9584, Ford A-7526, Boeing A-7729, Sikorsky A-8287, Curtiss A-8425, Great Lakes A-8701, Curtiss Helldiver A-8849, Vought A-9068, Vought A-9099 , Cessna NC7107 , Travel Air NC9049, GeeBee NR2101, Lockheed NX7429, Fleet NS-36, Waco NC752K, Ryan NC5217 , Travel Air NC5426 Travel Air NC6113, Great Lakes 2T-1A NC11324, Timm M-150 NC279V, American Eagle NC284N, Consolidated Husky Jr. NC308E. PEOPLE Julius von der Heyden.

July-August 2007 Obituary for our good friend William T. Piper, Jr. PILOTS Carlton Foster Bond, William Hampton, Bessie Owen AIRPLANES Curtiss-Robertson Robin 1 NC7499. RESEARCH grant from the Wolf Aviation Fund.

June 2007 AIRPLANES Douglas NC14988, Monocoupe NC533W, Beech Staggerwing NC14415 PASSENGER Allan H. Lockheed, PILOTS Harold Turner "Slim" Lewis, Thomas Berry Colby,Tony LeVier, Robert M. Love, Forest Myrten "Iron Hat" Johnston, Daniel A. Kundle , Oliver Colin "Boots" LeBoutillier, Elrey B. Jeppesen.

May 2007 PILOTS William R. Jack, Theodore T. Hull , Harold P. Henning, Hugh Herndon, Frank M. Hawks, Edwin Hedeen. AIRPLANE Monosport NC113K. Second anniversary of www.dmairfield.org.

April 2007 PILOTS Robert N. Buck Obituary. George W. Haldeman, J. Hall, Alger Graham, William C. Gould. Installed centralized, MASTER VIEWING STATION for all motion picture film clips found at www.dmairfield.org. MOTION PICTURE FILM CLIP of Curtiss Hawk, MOTION PICTURE FILM CLIP of landings by Keystone bombers, MOTION PICTURE FILM CLIP of the 1928 National Ford Reliability Tour, MOTION PICTURE FILM CLIP of the visit by Albert Hegenberger and Lester Maitland, Charles Lindbergh four-minute motion picture clip of Lindbergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" at Tucson.

January-March 2007 PILOTS Joe Lewis , Lee Gehlbach , William N. Hudson, Al Wilson, Horace N. Heisen, Roscoe Turner, Clarence L. Tinker, H. Weir Cook , Carl A. Spatz, Thomas E. "Eric" Springer, Lowell H. Smith, Ross E. Rowell, Albert F. Hegenberger, William C. Ocker, Lester J. Maitland, John A. Macready, C.C. Culver , Ernest E. Harmon, C.C. Jerome, Albert, John, Kenneth & Walter Hunter, Arthur C. Goebel, AIRPLANES Arrow Sport NC9331, Curtiss Robin NC767M, PLACES Grand Central Air Terminal , Pioneer Hotel MULTIMEDIA John Miller (film & audio), Hap Russell Collection , C.B. Cosgrove, Jr. Photograph and Document Collection.

November-December 2006 PILOT Lonnie Faunce. AIRPLANE NC6455. IMAGE & DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS C.B. Cosgrove Collection, R.T. Gerow Collection, Hap Russell Collection.

October 2006 1930 Spartan School of Aeronautics, Cornelius Burton Cosgrove, Jr. Photographic and Document Collection, The Russell T. Gerow Photograph Collection, and The Harold B. "Hap" Russell Photographic and Document Collection.

August-September 2006 Nicholas-Beazley NB-4 Brochure, Harry Hazel Culver, NC386E.

July 2006 PILOTS Herbert J. “Hub” Fahy, Lonnie C. Faunce, John Bernard Fornasero, Paul L. Foster , Lawrence C. Elliott , James B. Dickson, David Ellis Doty, William H. Dowling AIRPLANES NC7888, NC1565, NC3193, NC800E, NC801E, NC580K, NC581K, NC586K, NC4453, NC9789, NC9792,NC5358, NC3908, NC1661 , NC150W, NC10780.

June 2006 AIRPLANES NC964Y, NC11Y, NC933Y, NC960Y , NC972Y, NC167W,NC49M, NC32M, NC536M, NC106W, NC107W, NC160W, NC904Y, NC905Y, NC926Y, NC349V, NC13W, NC117W , NC395H, NC522K, NC974H, NC46M, NC105N, NC891E, NC892E, NC9424, NC309H, NC336H, PILOT Marshall Headle.

May 2006 AIRPLANES NX8494, 26-202 ("Bird of Paradise"), NX4204 ("Josephine Ford"), PASSENGER Donald E. Keyhoe PLACE Huntington, WV PILOTS George K. Scott , Richard H. Depew, Jr.

April 2006 PILOTS Lucas V. Beau (INCOMPLETE), Peter Dana, Earl S. Daugherty AIRPLANES NC574E, NC623E, NC2846, NC625E, NC857E, NC858E, NC868E, NC869E, NC871E , NC34E, NC31E, NC197E, NC433E, NC434E , NC195E, NC7894, NC32E , NC7162, NC7428, NC7440, NC7953, NC7954, NC194E , NC1019, NC1076, NC6911, NC7044 , 395, 522, 609, NC706, NC877, 960 , NC432M, NC12196, NC8809 (INCOMPLETE) , NC10843, NC10845, NC10847, NC10872, NC10893 , NC7117, NC7118, NC7119, NC7582, NC8400, NC8411, NC9639, NC9641, NC9668, NC5562, NC134E, NC10815, NC10814

March 2006 AIRPLANES NR33Y, NC849E, NC3041, NC1781, NC5092, NC5493, NC7863 , NC5577, NC5578, NX7085, NC224E, NC178E , NC192E, NC233M, NC381, NC397E, NC842M, NC843M, NC9914, NC9975, NC13402, NX4050, NC4799, NC9738, NC9772, NC9813, NC9816, NC4097, NC624E, NC658E, NC9629, NC9632, NC9634, NC9702, NC9734, NC9435, NC9617, NC9626 , NC288W , NC7952, NC504K, NC2874,NC7805, NC162W , NC788V PILOTS Laurence Harry Cooper, Glover E. "Roxy" Ruckstell (INCOMPLETE), E.B. Christopher, E.W. "Pop" Cleveland, Cloyd P. Clevenger, Stuart Chadwick, George F. Chapline, James Shelly Charles , Art Carnahan , Albert C. Carl, Robert W. Cantwell , Victor Dallin , Cy Caldwell , Theodore Brown, Glenn W. Brophy, Gilbert G. Budwig, Milo Burcham, Harold Bromley , Edward J. " Eddie" Brooks , Leslie Bowman, Vance Breese , Edward A. Bellande, Floyd Bennett, Edward Booth , Walter H. Beech, Wallace Beery, Paul A. Berry , E.E. Ballough, Harry C. Bannister, Earl F. Baskey, Myron Gould "Dan" Beard , Robert N. Buck , Charles W. Mayse

February 2006 PEOPLE Charles H. Babb, Jimmie Angel, John H. Livingston, Walter J. Carr, Leighton H. Collins, J. Parker Van Zandt PLACES Tulsa, OK AIRPLANES NC4834.

January 2006 PEOPLE Gilbert W. Sykes, T. Claude Ryan, Edward A. "Eddie" Stinson, C.B. Cosgrove, H.W. Durham, Friedrich Karl Freiherr Baron von Koenig-Warthausen, Dudley M. Steele, Wiley Post, Jerry Vultee, Henry Belin duPont, A. Felix duPont, Jr. and Alice F. duPont, Reuben Fleet, Sylvester J. "Steve" Wittman, Will D. "Billy" Parker, Clarence E. Shankle, Joan Fay Shankle AIRPLANES NC10781, D-1433 PLACES Lordsburg Municipal Airport, Chickasha, OK.

November-December 2005 PEOPLE Arthur C. Anderson, Clare W. Bunch, Clyde and Eldon Cessna, Claire L. Chennault, Ira C. Eaker, Larry G. Fritz, Harold Gatty, George Thomas Westinghouse, Oakley G. Kelly, Max Conrad, Lloyd N. Keesling, Donald J. Kiern, Harold J. Kelsey. AIRPLANES NC199E.

September-October 2005 PEOPLE Marie C. Graham, F.I. Eglin, H.L. George, L.H. Dawson, R. Birnn, C.H. Howard AIRPLANES NC126M EVENTS WWW.DMAIRFIELD.COM: The New Website of the Davis-Monthan Aviation Field, February 6, 1925 to November 26, 1936, 1931 Air Races Schedule & Prizes,

August 2005 PEOPLE C.W. Gilpin, AIRPLANES NC8953, 8957, 9015, 9114, 9174, 9231, 9305, 3318, NC8643, 8728, 8730, 8813, 8849, 8893, NC8446, 8448, 8452, 8455, 8461, 8463, 8505, 8572, 8601, 8602, 8610, 8617, 8622, 8628 PLACES Patterson, LA,

July 2005 PEOPLE J.B. Alexander, AIRPLANES NR8016, 8058, 8176, 8187, 8198, 8203, 8206, 8217, 8266, 8420, 8445, 7575, 7611, 7612, 7671, 7705, NC7725, 7728, 7981, 8003, 8006, 7486, 7499, 7570 , 7213, 7246, 7282, 7296, NC7331, 7332, 7375 , NR8917 , NC6020, 6021, 6057, NX6197, 6505, 6572, 6583, 6585, 6586, 6705, NS6762, 6763, 6907, 6959, 6970, 7101, 7103, 7104, 7176, 7202, 7203, 7207 , NC5900, 5961, 6019 PLACES Burnley Field, EVENTS 1928 National Air Races.

June 2005 PEOPLE Hap Russell, Paul E. Richter, C.N. Shelton, James Flannery, Tex Lagrone, Frank Lahm, Benjamin D. Foulois, Hap Arnold, William Brock, Jack Frye, AIRPLANES NC5877, 5878 NC5553, 5559, 5624, 5770, 5850, 8015, NC4562, 4563, 4892, 4932, 4936, 4945, 4946, 5137, NR5189, NC5241, 5278, 5310, NR5326, NC4090, 4280, 4532, 4533, NC3648, 3750, 3775, 3785, 3809, 3810, 3824, 3887, 3910, 4029, 4074, NC1082, 1517, 1102, 1117, 1444, 1675, 1772, 1983, 2123, 3786, 2472, 2544, 2694, 2709, 2728, 2743, 2798, 2875, 3018, 3166, 3598, 3317, 8011, 9724, PLACES Colorado Springs, Denver, Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco.

April-May 2005 PEOPLE Bobbi Trout, Zantford D. Granville, Charles M. Taylor, Ruth Nichols (incomplete), Jean LaRene, John M. Miller, Pancho Barnes, Lady Mary Heath, Ruth Stewart, Martie Bowman, Opal Kunz , Mildred Morgan, Phoebe Omlie, Mary Charles, Charles Lindbergh, AIRPLANES NX-211 , NC898E, PLACES Chicago, IL , Poughkeepsie, NY , Los Angeles Area Airports , EVENTS History of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Davis-Monthan Airfield, Support the Website, Press Coverage , Privacy Policy ,1928 National Air Tour ,Women of the Golden Age (entire), Women of the Golden Age (abridged), Standard Airlines.

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