On December 5, 1989, nine courageous aviatrixes succeeded in chartering the Keystone Chapter of the Middle East (now the Mid-Atlantic) Section of the Ninety-Nines, Inc. These women were Jessica W., Julie S., Julie D., Anne E., Diane L., Nancy M., Alice H., Mary G., and Clarissa M. What does it take to charter a chapter of the Ninety-Nines? I interviewed some of our founders…
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Notable aviatrixes
Dolly Thomas. In 1954, she was the first woman to get her pilot license out of Hazleton Airport. There’s a plaque up in the FBO there. She told me they recently found the owner of the plane she owned and that it is still up in operation somewhere out in Illinois!
To learn more about the herstory of the Ninety-Nines international organization, read on here:
https://www.ninety-nines.org/our-history.htm
Atchison, Kansas local news (KAKE) recently did an interesting news report on our first President, Amelia Earhart. Click here to check it out.