The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register

PRESS COVERAGE AND OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO WWW.DMAIRFIELD

Occasional press coverage of this site and other project activities is cited here.

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DROP DOWN MENUS FOR PLACES

Please use the drop down menus to the right and follow the links to images and/or other information regarding some of the places that were important to the pilots and passengers using the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936.

The images, almost by definition, are black and white, and maybe not too legible. In some cases I've been able to provide both period and contemporary images of the places our pilots and passengers called home.

OTHER RESOURCES

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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http://www.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifThe Congress of Ghosts 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 a 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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, or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author.  ISBN 978-0-9843074-4-9.

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PLACES THEY CAME FROM, FLEW TO, and PLACES THEY LIVED

You will notice when you examine the images of the Register pages that most pilots logged their "Home Station", as well as the places they "Arrived From", and their "Destination".

By query of the database, the pilots who signed the Register came from 317 unique Home Stations, ranging from Aberdeen, MD to Ypsilanti, MI. As you might imagine, the west coast locations of San Diego and Los Angeles and the military bases in California and Texas were cited most as Home Stations.

Also, there were 170 unique "Arrived From" locations. Major east-west travel between San Diego/Los Angeles, Phoenix and El Paso was the predominant three-way arrival corridor. "El Paso" usually meant the previous stop before Tucson (if not Lordsburg, NM), with most fliers having come from points east before stopping at El Paso enroute to Tucson.

Finally, there were 241 unique "Destinations", ranging from Abilene, TX to Yuma, AZ. The same east-west departure corridor remained, with "Yuma" many times being a refueling stop for further travel into California.

Please check "What's New on the Site" button below and at the bottom of any page to see information on Homebase, Arrived From and Destinations I have recently uploaded. Follow those leads for examples of other types of extended information on this site.

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For you Microsoft Access geniuses out there, PLACES is one of the topics I've been thinking of depicting in a graphical way, perhaps integrating analyses of the database with something like Microsoft's MapPoint software to illustrate the travels of particular pilots, passengers or airplanes.

If you look at the analysis I performed for Standard Air Lines, you'll see that it is possible to glean business efficiency variables from the Register database. Could similar inferences be made via a geographic analyses of Home Station, Arrived From or Destination data?

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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. ISBN 978-0-9843074-2-5.

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