Set 328 U.S. Aviation Records And 328 World Records

Aero-News has learned that noted aviatrix Marie McMillan has Gone West. She passed away in late March in Las Vegas at the age of 92.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that, according to a family obituary, McMillan earned per private pilot certificate at the age of 44, and eventually set 328 U.S. aviation records and 328 world records.

McMillan was one of the "Flying Grandmas"; two women who undertook a 15,000-mile three week journey through Mexico and The Caribbean in a single-engine Beech Bonanza airplane. It was on that flight that McMillan set many of those 328 records. According to a UPI story published when the flight took place in 1984, McMillan already held 20 national and international records when the trip began.

McMillan was a flight instructor in Las Vegas for 25 years. She also flew humanitarian missions to Mexico, and ferried supplies destined for South America to a port in California, according to the Review-Journal. She was a member of the Ninety-Nines, and worked as a spokeswoman for the Clark County Department of Aviation.

In 2010, McMillan was among the first inductees to the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.

(Image from the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame)

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