Attractive Airmail Cover Signed by Pioneer Aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1929, Issued for Air Races Billed as “The Air Classic of the Century”

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Earhart was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She disappeared with...

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Attractive Airmail Cover Signed by Pioneer Aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1929, Issued for Air Races Billed as “The Air Classic of the Century”

Earhart was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July, 1937 and has been the subject of numerous theories and conspiracies ever since. She was declared dead in 1939.

An air mail envelope from the National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition in Cleveland, held in August and September, 1929, billed as “The Air Classic of the Century,” with a 5 cent air mail stamp cancelled in Cleveland on August 5, and a colorful small cachet at the left depicting a plane in flight with the National Air Races design, and a stamped identical design over which Earhart has signed. Those attending the air races also included Charles A. Lindbergh.

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