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The base was named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis (1896–1921) and Chief Engineer Oscar Monthan (1885–1924), both Tucson natives. [3] Monthan enlisted in the Army as a private in 1917, was commissioned as a ground officer in 1918, and later became a pilot; he was killed in the crash of a Martin B2 bomber in Hawaii on March 27, 1924.
During an aerial demonstration at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, Fairchild-Republic chief test pilot Howard R. "Sam" Nelson fails to recover from a loop in Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, 75-0294, c/n A10-0043, '97', from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, tail strikes runway with airframe in nose-high attitude, aircraft ...
31 January Lockheed U-2C, 56-6714, Article 381, 21st airframe of first USAF order, delivered August 1957, to 4080th SRW, Laughlin AFB, Texas, as a 'hard nose' sampling aircraft; transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency and converted to U-2G in mid-1965; transferred to Strategic Air Command; flyable storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1969.
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona: Harold A. Smith June 25, 1943 Shepton Mallet, United Kingdom, European Theater: James E. Kendrick July 17, 1943 Oran, Algeria, North African Theater of Operations ** Levi Brandon July 26, 1943 Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Walter J. Bohn August 6, 1943 Camp Claiborne, Louisiana: Willie A. Pittman August 30, 1943
Converted to U-2C by November 1966. Assigned to training flights at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1969. The airplane was destroyed this date at Davis-Monthan in a fatal landing accident. The pilot, Capt. John Cunney, landed heavily, wing low, and attempted to go around but stalled and crashed onto the runway. [113]
On April 2, 1997, Button took off in his single-seat A-10 attack aircraft on a training mission with two other A-10s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. His jet was armed with 4 Mark 82 bombs, 60 magnesium flares, and 120 metal chaff canisters, and its GAU-8 Avenger gun was loaded with 575 rounds of 30-millimeter ammunition. [3]
The squadron activated briefly at McConnell AFB in March 1971, but moved to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona later that month and was reassigned to the reformed 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and equipped with the new LTV A-7D Corsair II ground support aircraft. [2]
He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy as a second lieutenant on 3 June 1964. From July 1964 to August 1965 he attended undergraduate pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. From September 1965 to February 1966 he attended McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II flight training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona