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Show U. S. Femininity Finds Flying a Forte WASHINGTON, Feb. M MV-Taks MV-Taks a look at America's 444 licensed li-censed women aviators. Some are Just past sweet li and ' others are Bearing 80, bureau of i air commerce records showed to-, to-, day. They are heiresses, movie stars, mothers and just plain working girls. Some 29ft fly for fun with pri vate licenses. Seventy-one in the transport class roll up air records that make male pilots gsap. In California lives the oldest woman pilot now licensed by the bureau. She Is M. Regulations don't permit girls to fly until they are 16, but five lT-year-olds share the "youngest" honors on the records here. Moot of the 14 women who need piled op more than 1000 hours la the air are pioneers. Amelia Ear-hart, Ear-hart, who was licensed by the bureau bu-reau in IMS, now has MM hours to her credit. At present no womaa pilot la employed on a regular airline job. officials said. . But M per cent of the women licensed to fly are working toward to-ward permanent employment la aviation, It Is estimated. |