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Organizations, Honors and Races
  • Ninety-Nines
  • Honors Presented
  • Woman's Air Derbies: 1929-1931
  • All Woman Transcontinental Air Race (1947-1977)
  • All Woman International Air Race (1947-1978)
  • Air Race Classic (1978-to date)
  • Pilots
  • Jacqueline Cochran
  • (1906 - 1980)
  • Bessie Coleman
  • (1892 - 1926)
  • Amelia Earhart
  • (1897 - 1937)
  • Harriet Quimby
  • (1875 - 1912)
  • Blanche Stuart Scott
  • (1885 - 1970)
  • Katherine Stinson
  • (1891 - 1977)

    Cachets

    Producer of this cover: unknown
    This cachet honors Valentina Grizodubova.

    The text of this cachet is in Russian.

    Producer of this cover: unknown
    This cachet honors Nadejda Russo, and has a stamp from Moldova on it.

    During World War II, Russo flew for the White Sanitary Squadron, which transported wounded individuals to safety. The text on the back of this envelope is in Hungarian (I think) and English.

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