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AERO
April 6, 1912

MISS MATILDE MOISANT, sister of the late John B. Moisant, the winner of the Statue of Liberty flight, and whose famous achievement in flying from Paris to London with passenger is well remembered, and sister also of Alfred J. Moisant, president of the Moisant International Aviators and of the Hempstead Plains Aviator Company, is a graduate of the Moisant Aviation School, where she obtained her pilot's license No.44, on August 17,1911.
Miss Moisant made her public debut October at Nassau Boulevard, L. I., where she won the Rodman-Wanamaker trophy for altitude against Miss Harriet Quimby and Mademoiselle Dutrieu.
Miss Moisant was born 24 years ago in Illinois and has spent a large portion of her life in traveling throughout the United States and in Central America. She flies a Moisant monoplane equipped with a 50-horsepower Gnome motor. During the past winter she has been giving exhibitions in Mexico and the Southern states in company with Andre
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MISS MATILDE MOISANT.
Houpert and Francisco Alvarez, the latter having also obtained his pilot's license at the Moisant Avilation School on December 13, 1911. During her tour in Mexico, Miss Moisant flew in higher altitudes than have ever before been undertaken by a woman aviator and than male aviators are usually willing to tackle. Miss Moisant is booked exclusively through the Moisant International Aviators, Times Building, New York.