News about {Women Pilots}

Community Calendar- Saturday

06/17/11 SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORIC AVIATION CELEBRATION: 10 a.m.-noon today, Eagle Aviation Hangar, Hamilton Owens Airport, 1400 Jim Hamilton Blvd. Will feature WWII aviators; members of the regional chapter of The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, the Carolinas 99s; a B-25 bomber and C-47 cargo plane; living history displays and more. Free. (803) 731-3254; schistoricaviation.org

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Claire L. Walters dies at 85; flight instructor co-founded Palms to Pines air race

01/17/10 Her Santa Monica flight school graduated thousands of pilots. She also competed in numerous woman-only air races and was a key fundraiser for the 99s Museum of Women Pilots. After the model plane Claire L. Walters built failed to fly, she piled all of her dolls into a wagon and pulled them through her Santa Ana neighborhood as she tried to sell them.

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All-Ohio Chapter of 99s to meet

09/17/09 The All-Ohio Chapter of 99s, International Organization of Women Pilots, will have a meeting 11 a.m. Sunday at Carl Keller Field. Pilots and some spouses who are 49.5s, will fly or drive to the Port Clinton airport for a business meeting and program, then later join the festivities of Gypsum Days.

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