Date | Name | Milestone |
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June 4, 1784 | Élisabeth Thible | First known woman to ride in a hot air balloon. [5] [6] [7] |
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1805 | Sophie Blanchard | First woman to pilot a hot air balloon. [8] |
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March 8, 1910 | Raymonde de Laroche | First woman to receive a pilot's license. [9] |
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1910–1911 | Lilian Bland | First woman in the world to design, build, and fly an aircraft. [10] [11] |
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1912 | Harriet Quimby | First woman to fly across the English Channel. [12] |
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1912 | Rayna Kasabova | First woman to participate in a military flight during the Siege of Odrin. |
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1914 | Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya | First woman commissioned as a military pilot; she flew reconnaissance missions for the Czar in 1914. [13] [14] |
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1915 | Marie Marvingt | First woman to fly a fighter plane in combat. [15] [16] |
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1930 | Amy Johnson | First woman to fly from Britain to Australia. [17] |
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1932 | Amelia Earhart | First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [18] |
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1933 | Lotfia ElNadi | First African woman and first Arab woman to earn a pilot's license. |
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1937 | Sabiha Gökçen | The first military woman to fly combat missions. |
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1948 | Daisy Pon | The first woman aeronautical engineering graduate in Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto. [19] |
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October 17, 1951 | Touria Chaoui | The first Moroccan and Maghrebi female pilot [20] |
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May 18, 1953 | Jacqueline Cochran | First woman to break the sound barrier. [21] |
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1957 | Jackie Moggridge | First woman to become a British airline captain. [22] |
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June 16, 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova | First woman in space. [23] |
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1963 | Betty Miller | First female pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. [24] |
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1964 | Jerrie Mock | First woman to fly solo around the world. [25] |
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1964 | Joan Merriam Smith | - First person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator
- First person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world
- First woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world
- First woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane
- First woman to receive an airline transport rating at the age of 23
- Youngest woman to complete a solo flight around the world.
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1973 | Rosella Bjornson | First female pilot for a commercial airline in North America |
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1976 | Emily Howell Warner | First woman to become an American airline captain. [26] [27] |
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1978 | Judy Cameron | First female pilot hired to fly for a major Canadian carrier (Air Canada). [28] |
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1984 | Svetlana Savitskaya | First woman to space walk. [29] |
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1991 | Sony Rana | Nepal's first licensed female commercial airline pilot. [30] [31] |
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February 1995 | Eileen Collins | First female Space Shuttle commander. [32] |
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2004 | Irene Koki Mutungi | First African woman to qualify to captain a commercial aircraft; she qualified to command the Boeing 737. [33] |
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2005 | Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi | First Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot. [34] |
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September 18, 2006 | Anousheh Ansari | First female space tourist. [35] |
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2009 | Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi | Ghana's first female civilian pilot, and the first woman in West Africa certified to build and maintain Rotax engines. [36] |
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2014 | Nicola Scaife | Winner of the first women's hot air balloon world championship, which was held in Poland. [37] |
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2015 | Dalia | Iraq's first female commercial airline pilot. [38] |
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2015 | Ouma Laouali | Niger's first female pilot. [39] |
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2023 | Vanessa Hudson | First woman to lead Qantas Airways. [40] |
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2024 | Mitsuko Tottori | First woman to lead Japan Airlines, where she began her career as a flight attendant in 1985. [41] |
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