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Early Australian female aviators were generally active since 1927 when it became possible for an Australian woman to hold a pilot's licence and fly within Australia. [1] Women had participated in gliding, or taken a licence overseas, but they had not been permitted to fly a plane under licence within Australia.
Georgina Sutton (born 1961) is an Australian aviator and former police officer from Adelaide, best known for being the first woman to be appointed as chief pilot for an Australian airline. Sutton began her aviation journey at 16 years old by flying gliders. Having obtained her power licence, she joined South Australia Police to fund her ...
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born Australian aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to Britain. She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to Britain.
Maude Bonney (1897–1994), Australian aviator who was the first female to fly from England to Australia in 1933 and to South Africa in 1937. Ana Branger (born early 1920s), early Venezuelan aviator; Jill E. Brown (born 1950), first African American female pilot for a major US carrier
May Bradford welding part of the all Australian monoplane for the England-Australia air race, 1934. May Gertrude Shepherd (née Bradford), (1897 - 24 January 1937) was an Australian aviator and the first woman in Australia to hold first class pilot's 'A', 'B' and 'C' licences concurrently, in addition to a 'D' electrical ground engineers' certificate.
Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE (16 October 1915 – 13 January 2009) was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", [2] and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association. [3] In the 1930s, she became a fully qualified pilot at the age of 19 to become the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot's ...
She was inspired by Deborah Lawrie initiating a sex discrimination case against Ansett Australia in the late 1970s when her application to become an airline pilot was rejected. Lawrie went on to win the case and became the first female pilot with a major Australian airline in 1980. [3] On completing school, Williams sought an RAAF pilot ...
Millicent Maude Bryant (née Harvey, 8 January 1878 – 3 November 1927) was an early Australian aviator. She was the first woman to earn a pilot's licence in Australia, Pilot's Licence No. 71, in 1927. [1] She was also first to receive her pilot's licence in the Commonwealth, outside Britain. [2]