Air Race Classic - 2025

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Air Race Classic opens January 2, 2025!
The 48th Air Race Classic (ARC) will be held June 17-20, 2025.  Women pilots from across the United States and around the world will take off Tuesday, June 27, from H.L. "Sonny" Callahan Airport in Fairhope, Alabama, for a 2,426 statute mile competition across 9 states that ends Friday, June 20, 2025, at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington.

The oldest race of its kind in the nation, the Air Race Classic traces its roots to the 1929 Women's Air Derby, aka the Powder Puff Derby, in which Amelia Earhart and 19 other daring female pilots fraced from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio.  This year's ARC celebrates the 96th Anniversary of that historic competition. 

Teams will begin departing H.L. Callahan Airport at 8am Tuesday, June 17, 2025, taking off one after another approximately 60 seconds apart.  From there, the field will spread out as faster planes move ahead or as racers use their own strategy for when to fly.  Faster planes may complete the route in only two days; slower planes may not arrive at the Terminus in Spokane, Washington, until moments before the arrival deadline at 5pm on Friday, June 20.

Teams consisting of at least two female pilots will complete the course flying normally aspirated, piston-powered airplanes in visual flight conditions during daylight hours.  Pilots and copilots muist have at least a private pilot certificate and a minimum of 100 hours as pilot-in-command to qualify for the race; one of them musdt have at least 500 hours as pilot-in-command or a current instrument rating.  Teams may include additional female teammates who must hold at least a student pilot certificate.