Janet Bragg
African-American pilot in the mid-1900s
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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
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.
Ola Mildred Rexroat
The only Native American WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
Jacqueline Cochran
The first woman to break the sound barrier and who, at the time of her death, held more speed, altitude and distance records than any other pilot, male or female
Harriet Quimby
The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel
Eula Pearl Carter Scott
Scott received her pilot’s license at age 13 in the 1920s
Dr Bessica Raiche
On September 16, 1910, Bessica Faith Curtis Medlar Raiche, M.D., having had no training, made a solo flight in an airplane that she and her husband had built at their home in Mineola, NY. The New York Aeronautical Society presented her an award on October 13 to recognize her as “the nation’s first intentional solo by a woman.”
Blanche Stuart Scott
The first American woman to fly a plane in 1910