Two female Kent State pilots completed the four-day, 2,685-mile, all-female race with the best score to win the overall, collegiate, fastest Cessna and fastest Women in Aviation International team competitions. This is the second year in a row that Kent State pilots have taken top honors in the Air Race Classic.
Laura Wilson, ’22, pilot, and junior co-pilot Peyton Turner, competed in the 46th Annual Air Race Classic in June. During the four-day event, Turner and Wilson flew across the United States, making nine timed flybys at airports in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and Florida, before landing in Homestead, Florida. The Kent State team competed against 43 other teams from across the country.
Wilson was half of the Kent State Flying Flashes team that competed in the 2022 Air Race in which Wilson and alumna Alex Johnson, ’21, won the overall race as well as first place for fastest Cessna and first place in the Collegiate Challenge.