Box 2
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Cards with Air Race Classic route, June 24 - 27, 1997
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Identifier: UA 54, Series 4, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In this series are a Purdue Aviation Technology memorandum and Air Race Classic planning notes, cards with the race route, clippings and a race program. This series also contains numerous clippings about the tragic plane crash that occurred at the Purdue Airport in September 1997, which killed Purdue Air Race Classic team member, Julie Swengel, fellow student, Anthony Kinkade and their instructor, Jeremy Sanborn. Included are Sanborn's and Swengel's memorial booklets and correspondence sent...
Dates:
June 24 - 27, 1997
Found in:
Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
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Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers
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Purdue's Fourth Air Race Classic Team - Jacqueline Battipaglia and Julie Swengel, 1997 and Plane Crash at Purdue Airport
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Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Memorial Service Programs
Air Race Classic Newsletter, January 1998
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 2
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.
Dates:
January 1998
Headlines - Making History: Walking in the footsteps of Amelia Earhart, four Purdue women will race in airplanes to be the best female pilots in a national competition. For the first time this long-honored tradition, Purdue will host the event. The Exponent, Front page, June 20, 2005
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, Item: 2
Identifier: UA 54, Series 7, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains clippings about the Purdue teams and Purdue serving as hosts for the Air Race Classic. Also included are race updates provided by Mary Ann Eiff, advisor to the teams.
Dates:
June 20, 2005