A team of Purdue Polytechnic students will be competing in the 45th annual Air Race Classic, an all-woman, daylight-only race in which race teams fly a defined course to a list of predefined airports.

Tiffany Imhoff, a senior in professional flight, and Nina Bouthier, a junior in professional flight, are one of the teams representing Purdue University in the 2019 Air Race Classic.

Aviation students prepare for the 2015 Air Race Classic.

Two female Purdue University students took off June 9 from Purdue University Airport in a small plane for a four-day race that crosses the entire country, beginning June 16 in Concord, California, and finishing in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

Purdue will field one of 14 collegiate teams during the 2013 Air Race Classic, which takes place June 18-21. The team will attempt to complete the "perfect cross-country" flight during the four-day event. Amanda Keck is this year's pilot, Rachel Borsa is the co-pilot, and Haley Myers serves as ground crew coordinator.

(Photo: Amanda Keck (left) and Chantel Steele get ready to take off from the Purdue Airport for the 2012 Air Race Classic. (Photo by Suzanne Walker))

Chantel Steele and Amanda Keck, professional flight majors in the College of Technology, left yesterday (June 12) to represent Purdue in the Air Race Classic flight competition. The race starts June 19.

They will be assisted by a ground crew at the Purdue University Airport.