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For immediate release: March 6, 2013

Attention Ladies!!! Attention Girls!!!
Sunday March 10th at 11:00 am

Learn a little history; get inspired to become a part of history!
“Alberta’s Women of Aviation”

From the start…Women have been part of Alberta’s aviation past and future.

Since Katherine Stinson’s first Edmonton aerobatic demonstrations in 1916 through to today’s women pilots flying as airline pilots and instructors, around the world women have been part of Alberta leading the way in aviation.

Beyond the cockpit women have been the maintenance engineers, the builders and servicers of aircraft through Alberta’s aviation history holding key high technology positions since the Second World War.

In recognition of all female aviators that have served both in the air and the ground, military and commercial aviation. The Alberta Aviation Museum is celebrating all the roles women have played.

Celebrate the achievements of women in the skies and those that kept them there!

- Eileen Vollick
(First Canadian woman pilot)

- Vi Milstead
(First woman bush pilot)

- Rosella Bjornson; First Female Captain on Jet Airlines in Canada and first female pilot hired by Canadian Airlines

Leaders like Vera Dowling, Margaret Littlewood, Marie Wright and the others that helped shape Alberta’s aviation past and future.

Celebrate with us at the Alberta Aviation Museum, Sunday March 10th, 11:00 am.

Admission for female aviators (of All Ages) is free!!! Sorry guys……

The AlbertaAviationMuseum, proud to participate in the Women of Aviation Worldwide Week.
Media contact:
Jean Lauzon (780-451-1175)
Assistant Executive Director
AlbertaAviationMuseum

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Alberta Aviation Museum
Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society