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OTHER
RESOURCES
A copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with cross-references
to pilots and airplanes is available here.
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PRESS COVERAGE AND OTHER ITEMS RELATED
TO WWW.DMAIRFIELD
Occasional press coverage of this site and other project
activities is listed 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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