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Old 03-01-2013, 09:45 AM
 
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Researching old Phoenix and Arizona in General cropdusting companied during the war years (II) as well as postwar. Looking for interesting pictures and stories concerning Rex Williams of Phoenix and Quick Cropdusting (1948?) crashes, pilots and aircraft...

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Old 03-01-2013, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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You can search an extensive amount of historical Arizona newspaper articles, advertisements, and public notices on genealogybank and newspaperarchive dotcoms. Neither are free, however. Otherwise, try the local historical society.
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Old 03-04-2013, 09:34 AM
 
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There is a site that addresses old closed/abandoned/restructured airfields throughout the US, Freeman Airfields. See the link to go to one that was a duster strip when I was flying GA in the PHX area in the late 70s/early 80s. It has other fields that may be of some significance.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Northwest Phoenix area
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Old 03-04-2013, 09:20 PM
 
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According to an Arizona Daily Sun (9-29-49) news article, a chicken farmer along the Arizona Canal made a complaint against Rex Williams to the justice of the peace for "low and acrobatic flying". The farmer claimed that Williams and other crop dusters' flights over his ranch caused egg production to fall off . Other than a few late-1940s ads for the Rex Williams Dusting Service, that's all I've got.

Arizona Daily Sun, Thursday, September 29, 1949 : Front Page

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