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Air safety trophy winner, 1950
Posted on August 28, 2016 | in Uncategorized | by Lexington Herald-Leader
Greenwood “Cokie” Cocanougher was awarded a silver tea set in August 1950 after winning the Jane Lausche Air Safety Trophy in the Powder Puff and Beau Derby, an efficiency race for female pilots from Columbus, Ohio to Boston. Published in the Lexington Herald on Aug. 29, 1950. Cochanougher was a member of The Ninety-Nines, a female pilots organization that was founded in 1929. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
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