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Ninety-nines celebrate 100 years

By Janice Wood · March 1, 2010 ·

Susan Larson, president of The Ninety-nines, has committed to flying women who have never flown in both her Cessna 182 and Hughes 500 helicopter during the week of March 6-12 in celebration of 100 years of licensed women pilots, according to a story at AvStop.com, which quotes her as saying: “I can’t imagine a more satisfying reason to go fly, not that we really need one.”

On March 8, 1910, Raymonde de Laroche, a French balloonist, became the first woman ever to earn a pilot’s license.

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About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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