June 30, 2021 : By Ted Allen - Office of Communications & Public Engagement
Liberty Belles II team pilot Chloe Cady (left) and Kristi Serafin were featured in the Air Race Derby virtual awards banquet.
The five female aviators from Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics (SOA) who represented the Liberty Belles in this month’s Air Race Derby gained valuable flight planning experience on whirlwind weekend journeys — completing their identical five-leg routes out of Lynchburg Regional Airport to North Carolina and back in one day.
After the 85 teams from around the United States finished their respective flights of at least 325 nautical miles between June 12-26, results were announced in a virtual awards banquet on Sunday. Piloting two of the 20 Cessna Skyhawks in the Liberty SOA fleet, the Liberty Belles II team of Chloe Cady and Kristi Serafin landed in 10th place and the Liberty Belles I trio of Erika Jordan, Meredith Boardman, and Savannah Rotmeijer came in 41st, also winning a prize for their third-place fourth leg of the race.