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Susan Ahn Cuddy

A young college graduate who joined the military following the Pearl Harbor attack

Maggie Gee

Chinese American WII military pilot

Olga Custodio

The first Latina U.S. military pilot

Katherine Sui Fen Cheung

As the first Asian American female pilot, Katherine Cheung worked to publicize aviation to the Asian American communities.

Janet Bragg

African-American pilot in the mid-1900s

Willa Brown

Brown earned her pilot license in 1938, her commercial license in 1939 and earned her Master Mechanic Certificate in 1935.

Frances Dias Gustavson applied for the WASPS in 1943. After completing her training at Houston Municipal Airport in Texas, she was assigned to the Love Field in Dallas, Texas. After the war, she competed in the All Women Transcontinental Air Race held by the Ninety-Nines in 1951.

Katherine Stinson

She went to Chicago in late 1912 and became popular aviator Max Lillie’s first female student. Within two months she earned the nation’s 148th pilot’s license, the fourth woman to do so.