Tennessee team wins 2018 Air Race Classic
Alva was first designated stop in race
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June 27, 2018
Pilots Mariah Ferber and Paige Kessler, flying as the team Nashville Flight Training, have won the 2018 Air Race Classic.
The team sponsored by a Nashville, Tennessee, flight school flew their 1998 Cessna 172R to a fraction-of-a-mile-per-hour victory over second place finishers and veteran racers Debby Rihn-Harvey and Chris Dale, also known as the racing team Houston Hot Flashes.
The Air Race Classic pits each team against a handicap speed assigned to their make and model aircraft. The team that beats its handicap by the greatest margin wins. Ferber and Kessler’s speed of 154.148 mph beat thei...
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