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Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) at Fairchild Plant
Black and white photograph of seven Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilots, all in uniform, walking across an airfield with multiple planes in the background. in the foreground of the image is the nose and propeller of a single-engine…
Jerri Truhill and Martha Ann Reading Prepare For The Powder Puff Derby
Black and white photograph of Martha Ann Reading (laying under wing) and Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill (squatting next to plane) working on their plane before the 1958 All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, also known as the Powder Puff…
Jackie Cochran and her Staggerwing Beech
Black and white photograph of Jackie Cochran, wearing trousers and suit blazer with a lapel pin visible, standing in front of the propeller of her Staggerwing Beech plane. The engine has flowers draped over it. Jackie is holding something in her left…
Jackie Cochran in T-38
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.
Elisabeth Borelli
Black and white photograph of Elisabeth Borelli wearing a dark flight suit and holding a helmet underneath her right arm. Behind her is a plane. The photo is inscribed in ink, "My best wishes to American pilots Elisabeth Borelli 1978"
Anna-Marie Peltier
'Black and white photograph of Anna-Marie Peltier wearing dark trousers and three-quarter jacket. She stands with her arms crossed and wears sunglasses. Behind her is a plane and snowy mountains.
Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…
Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…
Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard
French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.
Notable Individuals in Flight featuring Blanche Stuart Scott
A compilation of nine photographs of notable individuals in flight accompanying an advertisement for Beechcraft planes, featuring a story about early female pilot Blanche Stuart Scott and her flight in a Beechcraft model. These clippings come from an…
Ruth Nichols Before Her World Altitude Flight
'Sepia-toned photograph of Ruth Nichols wearing full winter flight suit, standing in front of her single-engine plane named Akita with her hand outstretched in a wave. Taken before her world altitude record flight.
Ruth Law and Her Curtiss Model E Aircraft
Black and white photograph of Ruth Law, wearing lace-up boots, trousers, and a single-breasted jacket with a medal pinned above the left pocket. She also wears a plaid cap. She is seated in the center section of a Curtiss Model E Pusher biplane The…
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
'Black and white photograph of Baroness Raymonde de la Roche (Elise de la Roche) seated at the wheel of an early biplane. She wears a dark knit cap and a dark knit sweater.
Baroness de la Roche is the first woman in the world to have earned a…
Baroness de la Roche is the first woman in the world to have earned a…
"The Spanish Fleet" of Beechcraft Airplanes
Color photograph, aerial view of Beechcraft single-engine planes on an airfield next to a building that reads "Beechcraft" in red letters on the side. A crowd of people stands in the center of the airfield.
The Spanish Fleet was delivered by…
The Spanish Fleet was delivered by…
Louise Sacchi
Color photograph of Louise Sacchi wearing a dress shirt and a vest, standing with her hand on the tail of a yellow, white, and black Beechcraft airplane. Tail number E-24-26.
Virginia Thomas
'Black and white photograph of Virginia Thomas wearing a dark skirt, checkered top, and with a fur wrap around her upper arms. She has one hand on the propeller of a plane and one hand behind her back. She is wearing an Amelia Earhart medallion…
Virginia Thomas Accepts the Ohio Achievement Award
'Black and white photograph of Virginia Thomas wearing a collared blazer and holding a wooden trophy with a winged victory figure at the top.
The caption on the back of the photograph reads,
"Ohio Achievement Award - 1956
Joined 99s - 1947"
The caption on the back of the photograph reads,
"Ohio Achievement Award - 1956
Joined 99s - 1947"
Louise Sacchi and a Cessna 140
Black and white photograph of Louise Sacchi wearing coveralls and sunglasses, standing in front of a single-engine Cessna 140 plane.
Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager
Black and white photograph of Jackie Cochran wearing flight suit and hat, seated in the cockpit of a T-38A supersonic jet. Standing on the ladder of the jet is Chuck Yeager, wearing flight suit and garrison cap.
Alys McKey Bryant
Postcard featuring a sepia-toned photograph of Alys McKey Bryant wearing trousers, buttoned shirt, flight goggles, and gloves. She stands with one arm resting on part of a Curtiss biplane on July 31, 1913 around 3 P.M. in Vancouver, British Columbia,…
Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill, David Sloan, and Martha Ann Reading at the Texas Doll Derby
Black and white photograph of Martha Ann Reading (right) and Jerri Truhill seated in the cockpit of their plane after the Dallas Doll Derby. Jerri is reaching out and lifting up her son David, who has his back to the camera.
Caption on the back of…
Caption on the back of…
Jerri Truhill In Lycra Flight Suit
Black and white photograph of Jerri Truhill wearing a Lycra sleeveless jumpsuit, holding a helmet. She is standing on the wing of a plane.
Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Bea: The Lycra Flight Suit designed by John…
Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Bea: The Lycra Flight Suit designed by John…
Page Shamburger
Black and white image of Page Shamburger wearing a buttoned shirt and a raincoat standing outside.
Caption stamped on the back reads "Photography by Budd 145 West 71st St. New York 23, NY"
Caption stamped on the back reads "Photography by Budd 145 West 71st St. New York 23, NY"
Presentation of Earhart First Day Cover
'Black and white photograph of President John F. Kennedy, wearing a suit and tie, standing outside a door at the White House and holding an envelope in his right hand. Also with him are, left to right, Blanche Noyes, Louise Smith, and Virginia…
Jackie Cochran in the Cockpit
Sepia-toned photograph of Jackie Cochran wearing leather jacket, flight helmet and goggles, and seated in the closed cockpit of the Seversky plane. She is waving to the camera with her right hand and is looking over her right shoulder. Taken before…
Tracy Pilurs and the Pretty Purple Puddy Tat
Black and white photograph of Tracy Pilurs wearing a windbreaker and scarf, seated in the cockpit of the her plane, named the Pretty Purple Puddy Tat. Her mascot, a stuffed cat - also named the Pretty Purple Puddy Tat - is resting on the wing of the…
Jackie Cochran Stamp
Color photograph of the Jackie Cochran Memorial 50¢ USA stamp, issued in 1996. Stamp depicts an artistic rendering of Cochran in flight helmet and goggles a plane in flight and a Bendix race pylon in the background.