The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register

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A copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with cross-references to pilots and airplanes is available here.

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BUSINESS PILOTS

Specific to business use, several early air transport companies frequented the Davis-Monthan Airfield. Among them American Airlines (the inaugural sleeper service landed there), Scenic Airways (later Grand Canyon Airlines), and Standard Air Lines. Click here to view a PDF file of a manuscript describing Standard Air Lines.

Numerous business people flew the lower terrain both ways between San Diego, Tucson and El Paso to and from the east. Pancho Barnes, and her passenger, flew a weather-fraught voyage with which even contemporary aviators may relate. Oil company representatives, airplane manufacturers and dealers ferrying new aircraft, and politicians frequented the airfield. Many were pilots themselves; some were passengers in aircraft flown by others.
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The People of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register

Clarence, the benevolent angel in "It's a Wonderful Life", would certainly go out of his way for each of the thousands of people that passed through and signed their names in the Register at Tucson. Indeed, as I do the research, look at their faded photographs, and build their webpages, I relearn each day that all of them had wonderful lives that would have left unacceptable holes in humanity if they had not lived.

Use the dropdown menus below to select pilots or passengers from the database, and to learn about their lives.

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