Air Racing “SHEnanigans”

Women’s cross country air racing!  Jeanné Willerth started air racing with her flight instructor mother over 50 years ago. How have things have changed? Technology, weather, glass cockpits, and even attire.  Jeanné will stroll through the many changes for racers since the 70’s. She has flown 10 national or international air races, each over 2000 miles. Her team “SHEnanigans” races in Charlie, her Cessna 182.

Jeanné Willerth (Ja-NAY WILL-erth) Bio:

Our speaker, Jeanné Willerth, is a single and multi-engine flight instructor and an Airline Transport Rated pilot.   She has presented pilot safety seminars and Flight Instructor recertification courses all over the country. She now trains “Rusty Pilots” around the Midwest.  She volunteers for Angel Flight Central, Challenge Air, and giving youth their first airplane rides. She has given over 250 charity flights. Jeanné holds both undergraduate and master’s degrees in mathematics.

She and her husband were charter members of the Lee’s Summit Sunrise Rotary Club and both are Paul Harris Fellows.