Claire's birth name was "Clara." She was born in McMullen, Virginia to Charles and Annie Breeden on December 24, 1899. Her death on December 19, 1930, in Nevada came as the result of the crash of an airplane that she was piloting. She died just shy of 8 months after the death of her husband (Herbert J. Fahy) in another airplane accident that happened near Grayling Michigan. Claire was a passenger in the plane that killed her husband but she survived uninjured.
Claire died on December 19, 1930. According to the New York Sun, on December 16, 1930, She attended an air circus at Tonopah, NV and was starting back to California on December 15th. Her airplane (identified in other articles as a, "Waco taper-winged biplane"), crashed from a height of fifty feet, "...after the motor stalled as she was taking off." She was severely injured in the crash, suffering a fractured skull. She remained semi-conscious to unconscious, and news accounts over the next few days held out little chance she would survive.
Claire was one of twenty women who raced an airplane in the first woman's National Air Derby that began in Santa Monica, California in 1929. The Competitors included some of the greatest names in aviation at the time, such as Amelia Earhart, Florence “Pancho” Barnes, world record holder Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Phoebe Omlie, the first woman to earn a transport pilot’s certificate and Alaskan pioneering pilot Marvel Crosson.
Claire was married in West Falls Church, Virgina on April 1, 1918 to Jas. Henry Adams. In 1927, she married Herbert J. Fahy. Claire and James had a son, James H. Adams who was only 10 years old at the time of her death. A court decision in March 1931 placed the boy in the custody of maternal aunts Dorothy K. Headle 21 yrs old and Mary E. Fry 26 yrs old of Burbank, CA.
Claire died on December 19, 1930. According to the New York Sun, on December 16, 1930, She attended an air circus at Tonopah, NV and was starting back to California on December 15th. Her airplane (identified in other articles as a, "Waco taper-winged biplane"), crashed from a height of fifty feet, "...after the motor stalled as she was taking off." She was severely injured in the crash, suffering a fractured skull. She remained semi-conscious to unconscious, and news accounts over the next few days held out little chance she would survive.
Claire was one of twenty women who raced an airplane in the first woman's National Air Derby that began in Santa Monica, California in 1929. The Competitors included some of the greatest names in aviation at the time, such as Amelia Earhart, Florence “Pancho” Barnes, world record holder Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Phoebe Omlie, the first woman to earn a transport pilot’s certificate and Alaskan pioneering pilot Marvel Crosson.
Claire was married in West Falls Church, Virgina on April 1, 1918 to Jas. Henry Adams. In 1927, she married Herbert J. Fahy. Claire and James had a son, James H. Adams who was only 10 years old at the time of her death. A court decision in March 1931 placed the boy in the custody of maternal aunts Dorothy K. Headle 21 yrs old and Mary E. Fry 26 yrs old of Burbank, CA.
Claire's birth name was "Clara." She was born in McMullen, Virginia to Charles and Annie Breeden on December 24, 1899. Her death on December 19, 1930, in Nevada came as the result of the crash of an airplane that she was piloting. She died just shy of 8 months after the death of her husband (Herbert J. Fahy) in another airplane accident that happened near Grayling Michigan. Claire was a passenger in the plane that killed her husband but she survived uninjured.
Claire died on December 19, 1930. According to the New York Sun, on December 16, 1930, She attended an air circus at Tonopah, NV and was starting back to California on December 15th. Her airplane (identified in other articles as a, "Waco taper-winged biplane"), crashed from a height of fifty feet, "...after the motor stalled as she was taking off." She was severely injured in the crash, suffering a fractured skull. She remained semi-conscious to unconscious, and news accounts over the next few days held out little chance she would survive.
Claire was one of twenty women who raced an airplane in the first woman's National Air Derby that began in Santa Monica, California in 1929. The Competitors included some of the greatest names in aviation at the time, such as Amelia Earhart, Florence “Pancho” Barnes, world record holder Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Phoebe Omlie, the first woman to earn a transport pilot’s certificate and Alaskan pioneering pilot Marvel Crosson.
Claire was married in West Falls Church, Virgina on April 1, 1918 to Jas. Henry Adams. In 1927, she married Herbert J. Fahy. Claire and James had a son, James H. Adams who was only 10 years old at the time of her death. A court decision in March 1931 placed the boy in the custody of maternal aunts Dorothy K. Headle 21 yrs old and Mary E. Fry 26 yrs old of Burbank, CA.
Claire died on December 19, 1930. According to the New York Sun, on December 16, 1930, She attended an air circus at Tonopah, NV and was starting back to California on December 15th. Her airplane (identified in other articles as a, "Waco taper-winged biplane"), crashed from a height of fifty feet, "...after the motor stalled as she was taking off." She was severely injured in the crash, suffering a fractured skull. She remained semi-conscious to unconscious, and news accounts over the next few days held out little chance she would survive.
Claire was one of twenty women who raced an airplane in the first woman's National Air Derby that began in Santa Monica, California in 1929. The Competitors included some of the greatest names in aviation at the time, such as Amelia Earhart, Florence “Pancho” Barnes, world record holder Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Phoebe Omlie, the first woman to earn a transport pilot’s certificate and Alaskan pioneering pilot Marvel Crosson.
Claire was married in West Falls Church, Virgina on April 1, 1918 to Jas. Henry Adams. In 1927, she married Herbert J. Fahy. Claire and James had a son, James H. Adams who was only 10 years old at the time of her death. A court decision in March 1931 placed the boy in the custody of maternal aunts Dorothy K. Headle 21 yrs old and Mary E. Fry 26 yrs old of Burbank, CA.
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