Virginia Fowlkes was Cape Central Airways' ground hostess

June 28, 2022

Virginia Fowlkes of Charleston, Missouri, a State College junior, worked as a "ground hostess" for Cape Central Airways at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport in the spring of 1972. The photos were taken by Southeast Missourian photographer Gordon McBride.

Virginia Fowlkes is a "ground hostess" at Cape Central Airways here, but her duties keep her flying most of the time. Here, her blonde hair wind-blown, Fowlkes takes a gasoline order from a pilot, Ron Roddy of Grand Prairie, Texas.

Virginia Fowlkes, a "ground hostess" at Cape Central Airways, uses aviation signals to tell the pilot where to park his aircraft.

Virginia Fowlkes is a "ground hostess" at Cape Central Airways here, but her duties keep her flying most of the time. In this photo, she bounds outside to the taxiway to meet an incoming plane.

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