Cedar Falls Girl to Take Training fro Ferry Pilot
Virginia Streeter First from There in This Branch
Cedar Falls -- Virginia Streeter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Streeter, 410 Clay street, is spending this week with her parents before leaving for Sweetwater, Tex, to enter training in preparation for service with the women's auxiliary ferrying squadron.
Miss Street is the first Cedar Falls young woman to enter this branch of the war service. She will be in training at Avenger field in Sweetwater for the next five months, reporting on March 24.
Under Civil Service
During her training in the army air force flying training command she will take a total of 175 hours flying time and 240 hours ground school work. The position is under civil service and the women working in this squadron are civilians under contract to the army air force.
During her training period at Sweetwater, Miss Streeter will fly the PT 165-horsepower trainer plan, and when she has completed the course she will have a commercial's pilot license, and instructor's rating, an instrument rating and a 330-horsepower rating. She will then be qualified to pilot basic, primary and advanced trainer planes from factory to training bases throughout the country.
Has Student License
Miss Streeter has her student pilot's license. She took air training at Livingston Airways in Waterloo and ground work under the C.P.A program at Iowa State Teachers college Recently her flying experience has been gained at Roosevelt field, N.Y.
She has a military leave of absence from her duties as a dietitian in the employee's cafeteria of the American Telephone and Telegraph corporation in New York City.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - March 18, 1943 (photo included)
She Will Soon Be Ferrying Planes
Virginia Streeter, 29, who was graduated Sept 11 as an aviatrix in the women's ferrying command at Sweetwater, Tex., is spending a brief leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Streeter, 410 Clay street, Cedar Falls, before reporting Sept 21 at Wilmington, Del, to begin ferrying planes. She has been in training the last six months.
Before enlisting for training with the ferrying command, Miss Streeter had 40 hours of solo flying to her credit, having taken ground school training at Iowa State Teachers college and flight training at Livingston airways in Waterloo.
She was graduated from Teachers college in 1936 and had been a student at Iowa State college in Ames before becoming dietitian for the Long Lines building of the American Telephone and Telegraph company at New York two years ago. She is on leave from her New York position.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - September 19, 1943
Cedar Falls Girl in Ferry Command Receives Transfer
Cedar Falls—Virginia Streeter, member of the ferry command, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Streeter, 410 Clay street, has, according to word received by her parents Friday, been transferred from Lubbock, Tex., to Eagle Pass, Tex., a station on the Mexican border. Here, instead of gliders she has been ferrying, she will handle the fast and very maneuverable advanced trainer-6.
Miss Streeter enlisted in the ferry command in March, 1943.
Source: Waterloo Sunday Courier, February 27, 1944
Cedar Falls Girl is Test Pilot at Enid, Okla., Army Air Field
A quick glance at the skies to see what planes are in the traffic pattern is the last ground act Miss Virginia Streeter, WASP, before calling the control tower at the Enid army air field for clearance to take her plane off for a test pilot. It is her job to "turn the plane inside out" and find any defect which might render the plane unsafe in flight.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - June 12, 1944 (photo included)
Virginia Streeter Ends Wasp Duty
Enid Army Air Field, Okla. -- Miss Virginia Streeter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Streeter, 410 Clay street, Cedar Falls, Ia., has completed her tour of duty with the army air forces as a member of the Wasp.
Miss Streeter has been stationed at the Enid Okla., army air field since March 30, 1944. Prior to going to Enid she was stationed at the Eagle Pass army air field and the Lubbock army air field, both in Texas, as pilot of tow-target planes. Before that she was a ferry pilot with headquarters at Wilmington, Del. At Enid she has been assigned to duty as test pilot
During the time she was a member of the Wasp, Miss Streeter flew approximately 550 hours in Vultee Valiants, North American Texans and Lockheed Loadsters.
The Wasp unit at the Enid army air field, a basic flying training unit of the AAF central flying training command, was deactivated Dec. 20 in accordance with a directive from army air forces headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 22, 1944
