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High-octane gas refined by Phillips Petroleum Company powered the “Woolaroc” monoplane to victory in a record-setting but deadly 1927 air race from California to Hawaii. On a foggy summer morning in 1927, eight airplanes prepared for takeoff before a crowd of more than 50,000 at the Oakland Airport in California.
Woolaroc is a museum and wildlife preserve located in the Osage Hills of Northeastern Oklahoma on Oklahoma State Highway 123 about 12 mi (19 km) southwest of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and 45 mi (72 km) north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Woolaroc was established in 1925 as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips.
The Travel Air 5000 "Woolaroc" which won the Dole Race is on display at the Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville, Oklahoma. [5] The Travel Air 5000 flying as National Air Transport's #17 aircraft on display at the former Fort Worth Star Telegram headquarters building in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. [6]
In 1929, a stone pavilion was built on the hill above the Lodge for the WOOLAROC, a small, single-engine monoplane sponsored by Frank Phillips that was flown in the Dole Air Race from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii Territory on August 16-17, 1927.
The Woolaroc was piloted by Art Goebel, 31, a big and handsome World War I flier had belonged to the "Thirteen Black Cats of Hollywood," movie stunt fliers who charged $80 for a parachute jump and $15,000 for blowing up a ship in mid-air.
31 maj 1987 · Aug. 16, 1927, eight airplanes took off from Oakland, Calif., in a race to determine who would be the first commercial pilot to fly from California to Hawaii and win the $25,000 prize offered by pineapple magnate James Dole.
The airplane hanger eventually became Woolaroc Museum and the airplane was the first piece to be included in our collection. Rebuilt in 1929 to the configuration it had when used in the Dole race, the airplane has remained a staple at Woolaroc ever since.
