In the 1910 Census, Bessie Faith, her widowed mother Elizabeth, and her sister Alice Maude Medlar were living in Swampscott, Massachusetts.

[6] The Raiches constructed their flyer from bamboo and silk instead of a heavier canvas covering used by the Wright brothers.

On September 16, 1910, in her homemade flyer at Hempstead Plains, New York, Raiche made the first solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States to be accredited by the Aeronautical Society of America.

Bessica was a physician, one of the first women specialists in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States, and Frank was practicing as a lawyer.

On April 11, 1932, Raiche died in her sleep in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, of a heart attack.