The Felts Field Sky Queens are racing across the country to raise awareness for female aviators everywhere

Erick Doxey photo

Pilots Sarah Roark, left, and Rachel Skirvin are participating in the 48th Air Race Classic in a Piper Cherokee 235.

“Fuel is good.”

“Master switch coming on.”

“Brakes are held.”

“Avionics are on.”

“Can we request 22 Right for 39 Whiskey?” the pilot asks into the radio.

The four-seater plane — a Piper Cherokee 235 nicknamed “Balvenie” after a Scotch whisky — taxis slowly toward the right-hand runway at Felts Field airport in northeast Spokane.

“Cross 22 Left,

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