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Mary Anita "Neta" Snook Southern (February 14, 1896 – March 23, 1991) 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 Virginia, first woman aviator to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial ...
Amelia Earhart is the most famous of this group of aviatrixes, but Neta Snook, the woman who taught Earhart how to fly, is often overlooked. Snook had been flying for four years, having made a living as a test pilot and a barnstormer, when she met Earhart in December 1920 at California’s Kinner Field, where Snook was a flight instructor.
12 mar 2012 · Anita “Neta” Snook achieved a long list of firsts: first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield. Yet it is for her connection with another pioneering woman pilot that Snook remains best known.
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19 mar 2021 · Just a few years before, in 1923 at age 25, she had become only the 16th woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. But did you know that it was another remarkable woman with the unusual name of Neta Snook who tutored Earhart in aviation in the first place?
Neta Snook Southern (1896-1991), pioneer aviatrix, moved to Ames with her parents while in her teens. She graduated from Ames High School in 1915, and after attending a girls' finishing school, attended Iowa State College. Neta's love of flying stemmed from her father's love of automobiles.
This photograph shows Earhart standing with her first flight instructor, Neta Snook (1896–1991), in front of the secondhand Kinner Airster that she bought in the summer of 1921 with money borrowed from her mother.
Flight instructor Neta Snook with student pilot Earhart at Kinner Field, Los Angeles, 1921. In 1923 Earhart became the 16th woman to receive an FAI pilot’s license. Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
