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What group of women pilots formed after the 1929 Women's Air Derby?

The Ninety-Nines, with Amelia Earhart as first president.

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Why: The derby brought women pilots together, and they started their own organization. Amelia Earhart was its first president.

Huh, didn't know that: The Ninety-Nines still exists today as an international group of women pilots.

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Why did the Ninety-Nines need one more member? To make it a hundred-percent success.
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Answer: The Ninety-Nines. The derby brought women pilots together, and they started their own organization. Amelia Earhart was its first president.

  1. CAP Teacher's Guide for Aerospace: The Journey of Flight (lesson outlines) www.gocivilairpatrol.com/media/cms/2nd_edition_Teachers_Guide_5D3166D76F9B1.pdf
    The Women's Air Derby led to the formation of an association of women fliers called the Ninety-Nines.
    Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. FAA History Office: Women in Aviation www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/history/pioneers/women_in_aviation_2019.pdf
    instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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