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Melissa "M'Lis" Ward is a United Airlines pilot, the first African-American female captain in commercial passenger aviation, according to Ebony magazine. [1] Her mother, Anne B. Ward, was one of the first two black women to graduate from the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Captain Theresa Claiborne flew military jets before becoming a commercial pilot for United Airlines. Now after 43 years, she’s hanging up her pilot’s wings. She was the first Black woman to ...
Theresa Claiborne having her wings pinned on by her mother. On June 20, 1981, Claiborne was commissioned as second lieutenant in the USAF. [8] She became the first African-American female pilot in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Laughlin Air Force Base on September 16, 1982 with the class 82-08.
Eugene Bullard, the first African-American to earn a pilot's license; Leah Hing, first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut in space; she carried a picture of Bessie Coleman with her on her first mission; Military history of African Americans; Azellia White, the first African ...
Bonnie Tiburzi (born 1948), first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline. Bobbi Trout (1906–2003), set endurance records and was the first woman to fly all night [68] [69]
Patrice Washington (born 1961) is a Bahamian airplane pilot, whose career was marked by a series of firsts.She was the first black woman graduate of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida; first woman pilot of Bahamasair; first black woman captain of a major U.S. air service and first black female pilot hired by the United Parcel Service.
In 1981, Theresa Claiborne sits outside of a T-38 aircraft as she was training to become the first Black female pilot in the Air Force.
From her private hours and working at Wheeler, she managed to amass the 1,200 flying hours required to fly for a major airline. [4] In 1978, she joined Texas International Airlines as a pilot, becoming the first female African-American pilot for a major US airline. [1] However, she felt she was being used for publicity purposes by the airline. [3]