Registration Opens for 47th Air Race Classic

The race will begin June 18.

Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 03:16 PM ET

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Along with opening registration for Air Race Classic on January 2, team rules and the race route have been established. [Courtesy: Air Race Classic]

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The 47th Air Race Classic (ARC), an all-women transcontinental air race, opens registration on January 2, 2024, for its June 18-21 event, covering 2,628 miles from Southern Illinois to Northern Colorado.
Open to teams of at least two female pilots with specific experience requirements, the race challenges participants to beat their individual aircraft handicaps through piloting skill and strategic decision-making.
Celebrating the 95th anniversary of the first women's air race (the 1929 Women's Air Derby), the ARC aims to encourage female pilots, promote general aviation, and inspire future generations.

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Attention women pilots: if air racing is on your aviation bucket list, here’s your chance: registration opens January 2, 2024 for the 47th Air Race Classic (ARC). The event, open to women pilots, will be held June 18-21. The route begins at Southern Illinois Airport (KMDH) in Carbondale, Illinois and ends at Northern Colorado Regional Airport (KFNL), in Loveland, Colorado, a total distance of 2,628 statute miles over 11 states.

The Air Race Class is the oldest race of its kind in the nation, tracing its roots back to the 1929 Women’s Air Derby in which 19 women, among them well-known aviatrixes such as Amelia Earhart, Florence “Pancho” Barnes, Ruth Elder, Ruth Nichols, Opal Kunz, Louise Thaden, and Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout, raced from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland, Ohio.