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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 ...
Elinor Smith (August 17, 1911 – March 19, 2010) was a pioneering American aviator, [1] once known as "The Flying Flapper of Freeport". [2] She was the first woman test pilot for both Fairchild and Bellanca (now AviaBellanca). [3] She was the youngest licensed pilot in the world at age 16. [4]
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
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]
Harriet Quimby became the USA's first licensed female pilot on August 1, 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane the following year. [41] Thirteen days after Quimby, [42] her friend Matilde E. Moisant an American of French Canadian descent [43] was licensed and began flying in air shows. [44]
Gwendolyne Elizabeth Cowart was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1920, the daughter of James Monroe Cowart and Louie Leonie Lester Cowart. [2] Her father was a locomotive engineer; her parents were divorced in 1928. [3] She was raised by her mother in Georgia, and as a young woman performed on roller skates in shows. [1]
U.S. Marine Corps' First Class of Women Aviators 2021 WAI Founding Board of Directors 2013 Patty Jean Wagner: 2020 Patty Wagstaff (1951–) 1997 Emily Howell Warner (1939–) 1992 Florene Miller Watson (1920–2014) 2005 Fay Gillis Wells (1908–2012) 1992 Whirly-Girls, International Women Helicopter Pilots 1998 Edna Gardner Whyte (1902–1992 ...
In 2023, Coleman was honored in the American Women quarters series. 6.15.1921 (June 15, 1921) is the date she was awarded her international pilots license. Large poster on a scaffolding at "Bessie-Coleman-Straße" (aka "Bessie-Coleman-street") in the district Gateway Gardens at Frankfurt Airport