Powder Puff Derby winners

Associated Press · July 11, 1956

Mrs. Frances Bera (left) won her third All-Woman Trans-Continental Air Race for the third time. The race began Saturday at San Carlos, Calif., and ended 2,336 miles later at Flint. With her is her sister, Mrs. Edna Bower, who flew the race but is not a pilot. Mrs. Bera is from Los Angeles and has more than 16 years and 6,000 hours of flying. She won in 1953 and 1955, and was co-pilot in the winning plane in 1951. This was her sixth Powder Puff Derby.