List of women aviators

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

This is a list of women aviators — women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and patrons.

It also includes a list of their relevant organisations such as the Betsy Ross Air Corps and Women's Royal Air Force.

Individuals

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A

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  • Amen Aamir, first women from Gilgit-Baltistan to qualify as a pilot and is alive today
Lilian Bland flying the Mayfly in 1911. She built the aircraft herself to become the first woman to fly in Ireland.
  • Asli Hassan Abade, First African female fighter jet pilot. A prominent Somali Air Force 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

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Willa Brown, the first African-American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol

C

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Bessie Coleman in 1922
Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra

D

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E

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  • Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic[26]
  • Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983), reporter and pilot
  • Lotfia Elnadi (1907–2002), the first African woman, first Arab woman, and first Egyptian woman to earn her pilot’s license in 1933.
  • Ruth Elder (1902–1977), pilot and actress known as the "Miss America of Aviation"[27]
  • Mary Ellis (1917–2018), one of the last surviving British women pilots from World War II

F

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  • Rosina Ferrario (1888–1957), first Italian woman to receive a pilot's license, 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 (born 1939), one of the Mercury 13; first female air safety investigator at the FAA[28]
  • Elisabeth Friske (died 1987), first West German woman to become a commercial airline pilot

G

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World's first female combat pilot, Sabiha Gökçen.
  • Maggie Gee (1923–2013), American aviator who served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II
  • Betty Gillies (1908–1998), pioneering American aviator; first pilot to qualify for the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
  • Sabiha Gökçen (1913–2001), adopted by Kemal Atatürk; World's first female combat pilot[29]
  • Maya Ghazal, Syrian refugee and pilot
  • Patricia Graham (1928–2016), Australian aviator, founding member of the Australian Women Pilots' Association in 1950
  • Valentina Grizodubova (1909–1993), long distance flyer and wartime hero; the most decorated woman in the Soviet Union[30]
  • Julie Ann Gibson (born 1956), Flight Lieutenant Julie Ann Gibson was the first full-time female pilot for the Royal Air Force when she graduated in 1991
  • Mette Grøtteland (born 1969), first female fighter pilot of The Royal Norwegian Air Force.

H

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J

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K

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L

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  • Raymonde de Laroche (1882–1919), first woman in the world to get a pilot's license[36]
  • Ruth Law (1887–1970), American aviator who looped the loop twice at Daytona Beach in 1915
  • Constance Leathart (1903–1993), first British woman outside London to get a pilot's license[37]
  • Hazel Ying Lee (1912–1944), Chinese-American pilot who flew for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II
  • Olga Lisikova (1916–2011), only woman pilot-in-command of a C-47 Skytrain in the Soviet Air Force
  • Lydia Litvyak (1921–1943), fighter ace; first woman to shoot down an aircraft[38]
  • Ila Loetscher (1904–2000), female aviation pioneer and activist on behalf of sea turtles
  • Rose Lok (1912–1978), first female Chinese-American pilot in New England

M

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N

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O

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  • Sicele O'Brien (1887–1931), 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[47]
  • Phoebe Omlie (1902–1975), first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license; first licensed woman transport pilot

P

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  • Suzanne Parish (1922–2010), member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots; co-founder of the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum
  • Ingrid Pedersen (1933–2012), first woman to fly over the North Pole[48]
  • Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926), French aviator; first woman to pilot a heavier-than-air craft at Turin in 1908

Q

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  • Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), first woman to get a U.S. pilot's license and fly across the English Channel[49]

R

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S

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

T

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V

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W

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Y

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Z

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Organisations

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See also

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References

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Citations

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