Neta Snook Southern
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Mary Anita "Neta" Snook Southern was a 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 Virgini
Neta Snook in 1921 at Kinner Field, California (Image courtesy Karsten Smedal via Ames Historical Society).
L–R: Neta Snook, Earhart's Kinner Airster and Amelia Earhart, c. 1921
Snook and Pratt, Long Beach, California, 1922
Kinner Airster
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The Kinner Airster is an American two-seat single-engined biplane designed by Bert Kinner and built by his Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation.
Neta Snook Southern
…became friends." The first five hours in the air were paid for by Earhart but the next 15 were entirely unpaid as Snook took her new pilot up in the Kinner Airster that Amelia had purchased. At first, her pupil was not the best flyer. Earhart stalled the Airster while trying to clear a grove of eucalyptus trees…
Kinner Airster photo from Aero Digest September 1926