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Jerrie Mock
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was the first woman to fly solo around the world, which she did in 1964. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the "Spirit of Columbus" and nicknamed "Charlie." The trip began March 19, 1964, in Columbus, Ohio, and ended April 17, 1964, in Columbus, Ohio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women Aviators )〕 and took 29 days, 21 stopovers and almost .〔Mock, Jerrie: ''Three-Eight Charlie'', First Edition, 1970. , (paperback), (hardcover)〕 She was subsequently awarded the Louis Blériot medal from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 1965. In 1970 she published the story of her round-the-world flight in the book ''Three-Eight Charlie''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Three-Eight Charlie )〕 While that book is now out of print, a 50th anniversary edition was later published including maps, weather charts and photos.〔 ''Three-Eight Charlie'' is a reference to the call sign, N1538C, of the Cessna 180 Skywagon Mock used to fly around the world.〔 Before her death, Mock, mother of three children, resided in Quincy, Florida; northwest of the state capital, Tallahassee.
==Early life==
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock was born November 22, 1925 in Newark, Ohio.〔 During her childhood, she found that she had more in common with the boys. Her interest for flying was sparked when she was 7 years old when she and her father had the opportunity to fly in the cockpit of a Ford Trimotor airplane. In high school, she took an engineering course of which she was the only girl and decided flying was her passion. She graduated from Newark High School in 1943 and went on to attend Ohio State University. She would leave her studies at OSU behind to wed her husband, Russell Mock in 1945.
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