Red, White and Blue Airmail Cover Signed by Pioneer Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, Commemorating the Tenth National Air Races in 1930

Earhart was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July, 1937 and has been the subject of numerous theories and conspiracies ever since. She was declared dead in 1939.

An air mail cover bordered in red, white and blue checkers with a 5 cent air mail stamp and an airplane cachet at the left noting that it commemorates the Tenth National Air Races in Chicago that began on August 25, 1930. It is postmarked September 1, 1930, and is signed by Earhart under the image of an airplane. It is also signed by aviator Doug Davis. Davis was an early aviator, barnstormer, Air racer, flight instructor and commercial pilot. At the 1934 National Air Races, Davis was leading on the eighth lap, but missed a pylon. He banked to turn around and try to pass the pylon properly, only to stall and crash into the ground, dying instantly out of sight of the 60,000 spectators. He was 35 years old. So both signatories on this cover died in their 30s in aviation incidents.