After repeatedly being refused entrance to the Romanian Pilots School on the grounds she was a woman, in 1932 she was finally allowed to train there under Ioana Cantacuzino.

In June 1937, representing the Romanian Aeroclub, she took part in the first technical assistance conference in Budapest.

In 1938, as a member of the Romanian Red Cross, together with other female aviators including Mariana Drăgescu and Nadia Russo, she participated in military exercises in the Galați region.

By 1940, the squadron consisted of 10 planes, ferrying doctors and medicines, and bringing back the wounded.

[1] In 1942, Știrbei married Prince Constantin Basarab Brâncoveanu, celebrated with an extravagant aristocratic wedding reception.