MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION HISTORY BENCH MARKS


Leſt: Australian Artic explorer Sir George H. Wilkins. [https://www.skytamer.com/September.html]


Above: Carol “Ben” Eileson is depicted here with his Lockheed Vega [NX3903] commemorating explorations with Sir George H. Wilkins in 1928-1929. Eileson disappeared flying his Hamilton aircraſt on a rescue mission to the stranded passengers of the American ship Nanuk locked in ice on the Siberian coast in 1929. This painting by. L. A. Young won the North Dakota Rough Rider Award. [https://www.governor.nd.gov/media-center/theodore-roosevelt-rough-rider- award/carl-ben-eielson]


MOST AMERICANS CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING, A DAY IN NOVEMBER WHICH COMMEMORATES THE FIRST HARVEST OF EUROPEAN SETTLERS IN 1621 WHO WERE GRATEFUL TO HAVE SURVIVED THE UNFORESEEN CHALLENGES OF THEIR NEW LAND. FOR DECADES, THANKSGIVING IS A DAY WHEN WORK CEASES AND FAMILIES REUNITE FOR A SHARED MEAL. THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY HAS BECOME THE BUSIEST COMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRAVEL WEEK OF THE YEAR IN THE U.S. DECADES PRIOR THE SKIES WERE LESS CROWDED.


THE FLYING NEWSROOM A register of landings at the


Davis-Monthan field in Tucson, AZ lists Frank Byerley, a civilian pilot, landing on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931. His home base was listed as Detroit, MI, although he arrived from El Paso, TX at


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3:45pm en route to Los Angeles, CA. He flew a Lockheed Vega [NC32M] carrying one passenger, Arthur Mankey. The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register [www. dmairfield.com] is one of several web sites founded by Gary Hyatt


who has rescued lists of arrivals and departures at early airports. Where possible, Gary provides information about people and airplanes associated with the register, which is how I found a brief biography of Byerley [1895-1986]. Byerley had previously


BY GIACINTA BRADLEY KOONTZ


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