ABOUT MERIEM “ROBY” ANDERSON Mrs. Anderson was born in Eureka, Kansas but attended school in Miami Beach, Florida. She began flying in 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, traveling to and from on her motorcycle. Winters in Kansas included breaking horses for the Army in France. In 1942 she joined the Civil Air Patrol in Wichita as […]
ABOUT BETTY HEINRICH BERKSTRESSER Betty Heinrich Berkstresser was born May 12, 1919 in Houston, Texas. She was a native Houstonian and graduate of the University of Houston. She jumped at the chance to learn to fly after a university math professor asked her, “Would you like to be a pilot?” She immediately enrolled in the […]
Tickets have been sold out for the Dinner This is a private event for WASP families. Learn more about Homecoming. The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of your WASP. To best honor your family, the Museum is recreating […]
Tickets have been sold out for the Dinner The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of the WASP. To best honor America’s first females to fly military aircraft, the Museum is recreating a wartime party scene complete […]
The National WASP WWII Museum is celebrating 80 years of the WASP program on April 29 – 30 at Avenger Field, the training grounds for most of the WASP. To best honor America’s first females to fly military aircraft, the Museum is recreating a wartime party scene complete with WASP reenactors, a live big band, good […]
Come see us at the Big Country Air Fest in Abilene, TX. More information to come.
Announcing the May 2022 Release of Jean Landis WASP Pilot: 2,500 Miles…Long Beach to Newark in a P-51 Colorado Springs, CO, May 1, 2022— Sarah Byrn Rickman, a national authority on the women fliers of World War II, is the author of this, her 12th book about the American women who ferried warplanes for the […]
Join us for the premiere of the Dorothy Fulton Slinn exhibit presented by Dorothy’s sister, Honey Parker, and author Sarah Bryn Rickman. Cocktail and light appetizers at 5:00 pm. Program followed by Q&A at 5:30. The presentation is free, but registration is required (aka - let us know how much wine we need? 🤷♀️)
See you at EAA AirVenture 2022!! Make sure you stop by our booth, WV11, in the woman’s pavilion and see our BT-13 in War Bird Alley.
