Aviation Course offered at Adelphi, 1939

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Adelphi College

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In 1939, Adelphi became the first women's college in the east to offer an aviation course, which met the ground school requirements for a private pilot certificate. Martha Bacon, the daughter of Board of Trustees member Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, was the first student to make a solo flight.

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