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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 Peepetual 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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Article Archive:

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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