Neta Snookie Southern, American Pioneer Aviatrix

Snookie Southern emerges from the Flight Simulator for Advanced Aircraft at Ames Research Center, 1980. Mary Neta Snook Southern (February 14, 1896 - March 23, 1991) was an American pioneer aviator who achieved a long list of firsts. She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first aviatrix to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield. Yet Snookie, as her friends called her, was fated to be remembered for her relationship to Amelia Earhart. Her autobiography I Taught Amelia to Fly aptly captures the essence of her fame, she was forever linked to the Earhart mystique as her first instructor. In 1922, at the age of 25, she married Bill Southern, became pregnant and gave up flying, selling her business. She died in 1991 at the age of 95

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