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2013 AEMSF SCHOLARSHIP RECEIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

On behalf of the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Trustees and the International Board of Directors, we offer our heartiest congratulations to our 2013 AE Scholarship Recipients. To see the entire list of recipients and read the press release click here.

Karen Johnson Solo Scholarship Announcement

Ninety-Nines, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK (April 25, 2013). The Ventura County Chapter Ninety-Nines (VC99s), The Ninety-Nines, Inc. and EAA are pleased to announce the Karen Johnson Solo Scholarship to provide a young woman age 16-20 with financial support for flight training through her first solo. The Karen Johnson Solo Scholarship will be awarded by EAA and 99s at Oshkosh during the 2013 AirVenture WomenVenture activities, Friday, August 2nd. or continue reading the press release, click here.

Ninety-Nines Make the Final Fifteen in Lightspeed Grant Competition

Ninety-Nines, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK (April 11, 2013). On April 11, 2013 at the annual Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo in Lakeland, Florida, Lightspeed Aviation Foundation announced that The Ninety-Nines have been chosen as a finalist in the annual Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Pilot Choice Awards. Selected from a field of hundreds of nominees, the 99s are one of 15 aviation charities to compete for grants up to $10,000 that Lightspeed will award to the aviation nonprofits receiving the highest Internet vote tally in an annual grant competition.

In previous years the Ninety-Nines have used Lightspeed Foundation grant money to increase outreach programs and expand our participation in aviation events, support our scholarship programs and expand the 99s’ participation in the EAA Women Soar Program at Oshkosh. We have also been able to increase the number of flight training scholarship awards given to Women Soar participants.

Through our scholarship and education programs we are committed to working with other aviation organizations to advance aviation and the growth of the pilot community. With votes and support from aviation enthusiasts, the aviation community, our members, friends and family, the 99s can win the 2013 grant competition and use the Lightspeed grant to establish and market a new solo scholarship. It will provide young women between the ages of 16 and 20 with the funding needed to support their flight training through their first solo.

Upon learning that the 99s were a finalist in the Lightspeed grant competition, 99s President Martha Phillips said, “We are grateful to Lightspeed for inspiring us to increase our outreach and visibility in the aviation community and beyond. We will use the grant competition to talk to aviation enthusiasts about aviation and the 99s while soliciting their votes.”

Please vote for us at www.vote99s.com.

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March 6, 2013 -- PRESS RELEASE: Congratulations to 99s Members Heather Dingman and Annie Paya on their scholarship awards from Whirly-Girls International.
Las Vegas, Nevada – Whirly-Girls International presented their 2013 scholarships to nine women at the annual Whirly-Girls Scholarship Banquet. Together, the scholarships are worth more than $50,000 of helicopter flight and ground training. Some scholarships were donated by training facilities and helicopter manufacturers, while $12,000 in cash gifts to the scholarship fund were also awarded. Read the press release here.

November 19, 2012 -- PRESS RELEASE: The Ninety-Nines and Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund Awarded $10,000 Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Grant. Click here to read the press release.

January 10, 2012 -- PRESS RELEASE: The New England Section announces plans for the 2012 International Conference to be held in Providence, RI. Click here to read the press release.

November 1, 2011 -- PRESS RELEASE: The Eastern New England Chapter of The Ninety-Nines announces three 2012 scholarships. Click here to read the press release.

July 26, 2011 -- PRESS RELEASE: The Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund Announces Funding Completion for Perpetual Memorial Scholarship Honoring The Late Vicki Cruse. Click here to read the press release.

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Ninety-Nines Urges Women Pilots to Fly a Friend

Tuesday, February 23, 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. "I can't imagine a more satisfying reason to go fly, not that we really need one," said Larson.

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Ninety-Nines Celebrates 80 Years

Eighty years ago, 26 women pilots met in a hangar at Curtis Airport in Valley Stream, Long Island, NY, for the purpose of creating an organization “just for women pilots.”

Monday, November 2, 2009

NINETY-NINES CELEBRATES 80 YEARS
“The women are going to organize….we don't know what for.”
--unknown newspaper columnist, November 2, 1929

Eighty years ago, 26 women pilots met in a hangar at Curtis Airport in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, for the purpose of creating an organization “just for women pilots.”
Only two months before, at the conclusion of the inaugural Women's Air Derby in Cleveland, Ohio, Louise Thaden, winner of the large engine class; Phoebe Omlie, winner of the small engine class; Gladys O'Donnell, Amelia Earhart, Blanche Noyes, and Ruth Nichols met under the spectator bleachers to discuss the race experience...

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10/13/2009		» Ninety-Nines joins Hilary Swank for AMELIA Press Conference
09/29/2009		» Late IAC President Vicki Cruse Honored by Ninety-Nines with Memorial Scholarship
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