- Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson C.B.E. was a pioneering British aviatrix who was born in Kingston upon Hull. - Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran (11 May 1906 - 9 August 1980) was a pioneer American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots of her generation. Her contributions to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) were also significant. - Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch was a famous German test pilot. Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia. She was the daughter of an ophthalmologist and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became famous, setting many glider, aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to cross the Alps in a glider. Several of her gliding records stand to this day. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906, Englewood, New Jersey - February 7, 2001, Passumpsic, Vermont) was a pioneering American aviatrix, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. - Katherine Stinson
Katherine Stinson (February 14, 1891, in Fort Payne, Alabama- July 8, 1977, in Santa Fe, New Mexico). She was the fourth woman in the United States to obtain a pilot's certificate, which she earned on July 24, 1912, at the age of 21. Initially, she planned to get her certificate and earn money she earned from exhibition flying to pay for her music lessons. However, she found she liked flying so much that she gave up her piano career and decided to become an aviatrix. - Neta Snook
Anita "Neta" Snook Southern (1896-1991), was a pioneer aviatrix who achieved a long list of firsts. She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman to run her own business and first woman to run a commercial airfield. Yet "Snookie", as her friends called her, was fated to be remembered for her relationship to Amelia Earhart. - Jacqueline Auriol
Jacqueline Auriol was a French aviatrix who set several world speed records. Born Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Douet in Challans, Vendée, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, she graduated from the University of Nantes then she studied art at the École du Louvre in Paris. In 1938, Jacqueline Douet married Paul Auriol, son of Vincent Auriol who later became President of France During World War II, Jacqueline Auriol, … - Sheila Scott
Sheila Scott, was an English aviatrix. Born in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, she broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flight endeavours, which included a 34,000 mile (54,400 km) "world and a half" flight in 1971. On this flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a single engine plane. She also served as governor of the British section of the Ninety-Nines, an international association of licensed women pilots. - Susan Oliver
Susan Oliver (February 13 1932-May 10 1990) was an Emmy-nominated American actress, television director and a record-setting aviatrix. - Lois Hamilton
Lois Hamilton was an accomplished model, author, actress, artist and aviatrix. Born Lois Aurino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was a descendant of Italian nobility. She studied at Temple University in her native Philadelphia before going on to the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. Although she earned degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts, and wanted to pursue her interest in the arts, … - Cornelia Fort
Cornelia Fort (1919 - 1943) was an aviatrix in the United States Armed Forces who became the first female pilot in American history to die in the process of military service. Fort was born in Tennessee to a wealthy and prominent family. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College, from which she earned a degree in 1939. She showed an early interest in flying, ultimately training for and earning her pilot's license in Hawaii. - Maryse Bastié
Maryse Bastié was a French aviator. Born Marie-Louise Bombec in Limoges, at age eleven Bastié's father died and her family struggled to survive. However, as an employee in a shoe factory, money was scarce and an early marriage that failed left her with a child and limited means. As a result of her marriage to a World War I pilot, she became fascinated by the new phenomenon of powered flight and was determined to become a pilot and to own her own plane. - Nancy Hopkins
Nancy Hopkins was an aviatrix. She was the president of the International Women's Air and Space Museum and a member of United Flying Octagenarians. - Winifred Spooner
Winifred Spooner (September 1900 - January 13, 1933) was an English aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of the Harmon Trophy as the world's outstanding aviatrix of 1929. She earned pilot's license in 1926, and then she became active competitor in sports aviaton. In 1928 she took the 3rd place in the seventh King's Cup Race, and in the next King's Cup Race in 1929, she took the 5th place. - Betty Gillies
Betty Gillies (1909 - 1998) was a pioneer American aviatrix. - Matilde E. Moisant
Matilde E. Moisant (September 13, 1878 - February 5, 1964), was an American pioneer aviatrix. - Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, born Melitta Schiller, was a German aviatrix before and during World War II. - Evelyn Genevieve Sharp
Evelyn Genevieve "Sharpie" Sharp (1919 - 1944) was an American aviatrix. - Lotfia Elnadi
Lotfia ElNadi was an Egyptian aviatrix (woman pilot) of Swiss citizenship. At the age of 26, she became the first Egyptian woman to fly a plane between Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt and became the 2nd woman in the world to fly a plane solo at a time when men were still afraid of cars. She had a strict upbringing. - Alice du Pont Mills
Alice du Pont Mills (December 13, 1912 - March 13, 2002) was an American aviatrix, thoroughbred race horse breeder and owner, environmentalist, philanthropist and a member of the prominent Du Pont family. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Alexis F. du Pont (1979-1948) and Mary Chichester (1878-1965), after graduating from Oldfields School in Glencoe, Maryland, the wealthy Alice du Pont pursued a wide variety of interests. - Zoe Connolly
Aviatrix, avid boater and submariner, Weapons Mistress and Gunslinger, Publisher of The Connolly Telegraph... Zoe Connolly is a Metaverse Steampunk Girl who Explores the Virtual World of Second Life. She wanders the 19th Century sims of New Babbage, Caledon, Antiquity, Steelhead City, Tombstone, and Deadwood. This blog is a photojournal of her adventures, and misadventures. Miss Connolly's has property in Caledon Regency and Antiquity Cove. - Aviatrix Amelia Earhart
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was once a Professor at Purdue University . - Nanette Malher
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