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Phoebe Jane Fairgrave Omlie (November 21, 1902 – July 17, 1975) was an American aviation pioneer, particularly noted for her accomplishments as an early female aviator. [1] Omlie was the first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license , the first licensed female transport pilot , and the first woman to be appointed to a federal position ...
Touria Chaoui (1936–1959), first female pilot in Morocco at sixteen years old [16] Katherine Cheung (1904–2003), first Chinese-American woman to get a pilot's license [17] Robyn Clay-Williams, one of the first two female pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force and the service's first female test pilot
Bessie Coleman took a French-language class at the Berlitz Language Schools in Chicago and then traveled to Paris, France, on November 20, 1920, so that she could earn her pilot license. She learned to fly in a Nieuport 564 biplane with "a steering system that consisted of a vertical stick the thickness of a baseball bat in front of the pilot ...
The world was not ready for female pilots and her hope was not fulfilled. [ 14 ] Just when her fame was at its height, with her life a constant whirl of lectures, races and long-distance flights, Lady Heath (she married Sir James Heath in October 1927) [ 15 ] was badly injured in a crash just before the National Air Races in Cleveland , Ohio in ...
Bonnie Tiburzi is the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline, [151] as well as the first woman in the world to earn a Flight Engineer rating on a turbo-jet aircraft. [152] The United States Navy allows women to train as pilots. [153]
Women eventually began to enter U.S. major commercial aviation in the 1970s and 1980s, with 1973 seeing the first female pilot at a major U.S. airline, American Airlines. American also promoted the first female captain of a major U.S. airline in 1986 and the following year had the first all-woman flight crew. [ 188 ]
Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 – 18 July 1919) was a French pilot, thought to be the first woman to pilot a plane. She became the world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910. She received the 36th aeroplane pilot's licence issued by the Aeroclub de France, the world's first organization to issue pilot licences. At the time, pilot ...
Barbara Erickson London (July 1, 1920 – July 7, 2013) was a Women Air-force Service Pilot (WASP) and a member of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). She was a ferry pilot – picking up and delivering various military aircraft to and from factories and airbases throughout the United States.