page_title: Mary Feik
section_title: Restorations
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Feik / Restorations
caption_attribution_description: English: Northrop Alpha, tail number NC11Y, in TWA colors at the National Air and Space Museum.
context_page_description: Mary Feik was an American aviation engineer, mechanic, pilot, instructor and aircraft restorer. She received many awards and honors in her storied career and was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol
context_section_description: Mary Feik retired from the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Paul E. Garber Restoration Facility as a Restoration Specialist. She restored antique and classic aircraft and has participated in the construction of reproduction World War I aircraft, helping restore the National Air and Space Museum’s 1910 Wiseman-Cooke aircraft, a WWI Spad XIII fighter, Betty Skelton's Little Stinker and a 1930 Northrop "Alpha" mail plane. Feik's personal Short Winged Piper is undergoing restoration for donation to an air museum.
caption: The Northrop Alpha project on display
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