Go Claire, Go!

September 10, 1951 Claire McMillen Walters won the All Women’s Air Derby in Detroit, Michigan and married her husband Mike Walters on the return trip to California. Called “Flight Instructor To The Stars” Walters owned a successful flight school in Santa Monica, California and was a founder of the Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots. Claire Walters passed away in January, 2010.