Laura Ingalls (aviator)

:This article is about aviator Laura Ingalls. There is an article on the author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Laura Ingalls (1901-1967) was a female pilot of the 1930's.

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1901 - 1967 - 1930's

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Her most well-known flights were made in 1934 and earned her a Harmon Trophy. Ingalls flew in a Lockheed Orion from Mexico to Chile, over the Andes Mountains to Rio de Janeiro, to Cuba and then to New York, marking the first flight over the Andes by an American woman, the first solo flight around South America in a landplane, the first flight by a woman from North America to South America, and setting a woman's distance record of 17,000 miles.

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1934 - Harmon Trophy - Lockheed Orion - Mexico - Chile - Andes Mountains - Rio de Janeiro - Cuba - New York - American - South America - North America

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Ingalls was accused of spying for the Germans in World War II, which she denied.

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