Tennessee team wins 2018 Air Race Classic

Alva was first designated stop in race

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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