List of women aviators

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Aida de Acosta flying the airship Baladeuse in 1903 – the first woman to pilot a powered aircraft

This is a list of notable women aviators – women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and sponsors. It also includes a list of organizations of women aviators.

Individuals[]

A[]

  • Aida de Acosta (1884–1962), first woman to fly a powered aircraft alone[1]
  • Margaret Adams, Australian aviator; first president of the Australian Women's Flying Club, in 1938
  • Leman Altınçekiç, First female accredited jet pilot (1958) in Turkey and NATO.
  • Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, second woman to attempt a flight across the Atlantic
  • Gaby Angelini (b. 1911), first Italian woman to complete a trans-European flight
  • Kimberly Anyadike (b. 1994), youngest African-American female pilot to complete a transcontinental flight
  • Cecilia Aragon (b. 1960), first Latina pilot on the United States Aerobatic Team[2]
  • Tamar Ariel (d. 2014), Israel's first Jewish female religiously observant air force pilot, in 2012
  • Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000), French test pilot who rivalled Jacqueline Cochran in breaking speed records[3]
  • Micky Axton (1919–2010), one of the first three Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) to be trained as a test pilot; first woman to fly a B-29
Lilian Bland flying the Mayfly in 1911. She built the aircraft herself to become the first woman to fly in Ireland.
  • Asli Hassan Abade, A prominent Somali pilot, military figure, and civil activist.
  • Zoya Agarwal, world's youngest woman pilot to fly the Boeing 777 (2013), captained world's longest flight route over North Pole (2021)

B[]

Willa Brown, the first African-American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol
  • Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), granddaughter of balloonist Thaddeus Lowe; founded the , Associated Motion Picture Pilots and became the "mother of the Air Force"[4][5]
  • Mary Barr (1925–2010), first female pilot to join the US Forest Service and become National Aviation Safety Officer[6]
  • Jean Batten (1909–1982), made first solo flight from United Kingdom to New Zealand in the 1930s
  • Ann Baumgartner (1918–2008), test pilot; first American woman to fly a U.S. Army Air Forces jet aircraft (a Bell YP-59A jet fighter)
  • Amelie Beese (1886–1925), first woman pilot in Germany[7]
  • Elly Beinhorn (1907–2007), German enthusiast who made long-distance flights on every continent and flew around the world[8]
  • Dagny Berger (1903–1950), Norway's first woman aviator
  • Susana Ferrari Billinghurst (1914–1999), Argentinian pilot; first woman in South America to gain a commercial pilot's licence, in 1937
  • Lilian Bland (1878–1971), built her own aircraft; first woman to fly in Ireland[9]
  • Line Bonde (b. c.1979), first Danish woman to become a fighter pilot, in 2006
  • 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
  • Willa Brown (1906–1992), first black woman to hold both a commercial and private licence in the US; founded the ; first black female to be an officer in the Civil Air Patrol[10]
  • Mrs Victor Bruce (1895–1990), born Mildred Mary but most famous by her married name; first woman to fly around the world alone and the first to be prosecuted for speeding[11][12]
  • Millicent Bryant (1878–1927), first woman to earn a pilot's licence in Australia
  • Beverly Burns (b. 1949), American pilot, possibly the first woman to captain a jumbo jet (see Lynn Rippelmeyer)[13]

C[]

Bessie Coleman in 1922
  • Mary Calcaño (1906–1992), first Venezuelan woman to be granted a pilot's license
  • Maie Casey, first patron of the Australian Association of Woman Pilots[14]
Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra

D[]

  • Mildred Inks Davidson Dalrymple (1920–2012), military aviator
  • Susan Darcy (born 1956), first female test pilot for Boeing
  • Vera Strodl Dowling (1918–2015), Danish World War II test pilot and later flight instructor in Alberta, Canada
  • Mariana Drăgescu (1912–2013), Romanian military pilot in World War II
  • Margot Duke, Marchioness of Reading, society beauty who was one of the first women in Britain to get a pilot's licence[22]
  • Maxine Dunlap, first woman glider pilot and first woman glider club president in the U.S.
  • Hélène Dutrieu, first woman pilot in Belgium and to carry a passenger; caused a sensation by flying without a corset[23]

E[]

  • Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic[24]
  • Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983), reporter and pilot
  • Lotfia Elnadi (1907–2002), first Egyptian woman to earn her pilot license 1933
  • Ruth Elder, pilot and actress known as the "Miss America of Aviation"[25]
  • Mary Ellis (1917–2018), one of the last surviving British women pilots from World War II

F[]

  • Rosina Ferrario (1888–1957), first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence, in January 1913
  • Amalia Celia Figueredo (1895–1985), Argentine aviator; first woman in Argentina, and possibly Latin America, to obtain a pilot's license in 1914 with Paul Castaibert
  • Kathleen Fox (born 1951), Canadian flight instructor, air traffic controller and business executive
  • Mathilde Franck (1866–1956), early French aviator; learned to fly in 1910
  • Wally Funk, one of the Mercury 13; first female air safety investigator at the FAA[26]

G[]

World's first female combat pilot, Sabiha Gökçen.

H[]

  • Melissa Haney (b. 1981), Air Inuit's first female Inuk pilot to become captain[29]
  • Else Haugk (1889–1973), first Swiss woman to earn a pilot's licence, in May 1914
  • Mary, Lady Heath, first woman to fly solo across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo[30]
  • Jane Herveu (1885–1955), pioneering French aviator; received her licence on 7 December 1910
  • Hilda Hewlett, first woman to get a British pilot's licence and to open the first flying school there[31]
  • Trevor Hunter (1915–2002), early New Zealand aviator
  • Tadashi Hyōdō (1899–1980), first woman to obtain a pilot's licence in Japan, in March 1922.

J[]

K[]

L[]

  • Raymonde de Laroche, first woman in the world to get a pilot's licence[34]
  • Ruth Law (1887–1970), American aviator who looped the loop twice at Daytona Beach in 1915
  • Constance Leathart, first British woman outside London to get a pilot's licence[35]
  • Hazel Ying Lee, Chinese-American pilot who flew for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II
  • Olga Lisikova, only woman pilot-in-command of a C-47 Skytrain in the Soviet Air Force
  • Lydia Litvyak, fighter ace; first woman to shoot down an aircraft[36]
  • Ila Loetscher, female aviation pioneer and activist on behalf of sea turtles
  • Rose Lok, first female Chinese-American pilot in New England

M[]

N[]

  • Lyalya Nasukhanova (1939–2000), first Chechen woman pilot; attempted to join the cosmonaut corps but rejected because of her ethnicity
  • Yichida Ndlovu, first civilian pilot in Zambia
  • Carina Negrone (1911–1991), Italian aviator; reached a record-breaking 12,043 metres (39,402 ft) in a propeller-powered plane
  • Ruth Nichols (1901–1960), set many aviation records and started the first air ambulance service in the US[44]
  • Marthe Niel (1878–1928), French aviator; second woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence
  • Sakhile Nyoni, first woman pilot in Botswana

O[]

  • Sicele O'Brien, one of Ireland's pioneering female pilots who raced and set records in Europe and Africa in the 1920s
  • Ruth Law Oliver, first woman pilot to wear a military uniform and the first to deliver air mail to the Philippines[45]
  • Phoebe Omlie, first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license; first licensed woman transport pilot

P[]

Q[]

  • Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), first woman to get a US pilot's licence and fly across the English Channel[47]

R[]

S[]

Blanche Scott, the "Tomboy of the Air"
Neta Snook, who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly

T[]

V[]

W[]

Y[]

Z[]

Organisations[]

See also[]

References[]

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