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Mack Rutherford was born in Belgium and is the son of a Sandhurst-trained British ex-Army helicopter pilot, Sam Rutherford and a Belgian recreational pilot and lawyer Beatrice De Smet. [4] [17] As a young boy, Rutherford would accompany his parents on many flights. At the age of 14, he began training to become a pilot and gained a French ultra ...
Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old American trainee pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States.
Captain Katrina Mumaw (born c. 1983 in Lancaster, California), is a United States Air Force Academy graduate and accomplished pilot who holds several records in aviation. [1] On July 12, 1994, at the age of eleven, [2] Mumaw became the youngest person to pilot a Russian MIG-29 fighter jet [3] and also the youngest to break the sound barrier. [2]
Zara Rutherford is now the youngest woman to fly solo around the world. NBC News’ Dasha Burns reports more on the 19-year-old’s five-month journey circling the globe.
Captain Barrington Irving Jr. CD (born November 11, 1983) is a Jamaican-born American pilot who previously held the record for the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo, a feat he accomplished in 2007. He is also the first black person and first Jamaican to accomplish this feat.
A Louisiana teenager flew for 10½ hours through a sandstorm over Saudi Arabia, got stuck in the Philippines by typhoons, and set three youth aviation records.
One-time youngest pilot to circumnavigate by aircraft, solo (19 years, 7 months, 15 days) [1] Aviation career: Full name: Matthew Lee Guthmiller: First flight: July 25, 2011 1975 Cessna 150M: Famous flights: Global Circumnavigation Flight May 31 – July 14, 2014: Flight license: November 29, 2011: Website: www.mattguthmiller.com
Victoria Louise Van Meter (March 13, 1982 – March 15, 2008 [1]) was an American aviator.She was known for setting several distance-flying records for child pilots. At the age of 11, she became the youngest pilot to fly east to west across the continental United States of America, and the youngest female pilot to cross in either direction.