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In 1948, Ada Rogato, Brazil's first licensed woman pilot, became the first female agricultural pilot when she was hired by the government to crop dust coffee fields and eliminate the borer beetle that was plaguing the crop.
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]
Women helicopter pilots (46 P) M. Women military aviators (5 C, 44 P) Pages in category "Women aviators" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
Whirly-Girls, International Women Helicopter Pilots 1998 Edna Gardner Whyte (1902–1992) 1992 Sheila Widnall (1938–) 1996 Betty Jane Williams (1919–2008) 2006 Janet C. Wolfenbarger (1958–) 2016 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) 1993 Women's Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary: 2008 Jessie E. Woods (1909–2001) 1994 Mary Anna ...
Aviation is a male-dominated industry. Here's what it's like to be a female pilot for the U.S. carrier with the highest percentage of female pilots.
She was the first woman to go through flight training at Laughlin Air Force Base and became one of the first female pilots in the Air Force. [4] She served as a squadron commander of the 96th Air Refueling Squadron out of Fairchild Air Force Base, becoming one of only eight female squadron commanders. [5]
Cornelia Clark Fort (February 5, 1919 – March 21, 1943) was an American aviator who became famous for being part of two aviation-related events. The first occurred while conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when she was the first United States pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.