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FIRST WOMAN PILOT TO SOLO ARRIVES HERE

Veteran Aviatrix Is Seeking Plane Relics for Museum

Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott, first woman pilot in the United States to make a solo flight, arrived here yesterday on a "treasure hunt."

Mrs. Scott, who made aviation history in 1910, is now a consultant for the United States Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Base near Dayton, Ohio. 

In that capacity, she is touring the Nation, announcing that the museum is now open to the public. But her main job on the tour, she said, is to find aviation relics. 

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PIONEER - Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott, here seeking aviation relics, is shown as she looks today. Mrs. Scott, now 63, first flew a plane in 1910. [/caption]]

WANTS PLANE PIECES.
"I'm on a treasure hunt. I'm looking for anything and everything. If anyone should have a piece of an old airplane in their basement or in their trophy room or anywhere, whether it is a strut, part of a propeller, or anything pertaining to aviation, we would like to have it at the museum. Even photographs of early planes.

"It's not necessary to have the whole plane... what we want is any old part of the plane. The recontruction men at the museum can build the remainder of the plane around the actual piece."

In addition to being the first woman to solo in the United States, Mrs. Scott holds the distinction of being the first woman to drive across the Nation in an automobile. That too, occurred in 1910 when she drove an Overland from New York to San Francisco. And in 1912, she became the first woman aviator to take a passenger on a flight.

STILL ENTHUSIAST.

The museum, the famed aviatrix explained, formerly was under the command of the Wright-Patterson Base but recently was transferred to the Secretary of Air. From now on, she said, it will be open to the public.

At the age when most people are thinking of retiring, Mrs. Scott is still full of enthusiasm and concedes that she is still very much interested in aviation. She admits to having been up recently in a jet plane and in a helicopter.
 
During her ten day stay here, Mrs. Scott will be staying at the St. Francis Hotel. She requests that anyone that might have anything for the museum contact her there.

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