Born: 1 July 1903, United Kingdom
Died: 5 January 1941
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering English aviator, and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia over 19.5 days in May 1930, doing so with little flying experience at the time (she had only received her license in 1929).
She set many long-distance records throughout the 1930s, across Europe and to Moscow and Tokyo. In 1931 she married fellow aviator James Mollison and quickly broke his record for flying from England to South Africa. In 1936, she broke the record again, flying 22,530 kilometers in 12 days. The couple flew the Atlantic together in July 1933, but crashed on landing at Bridgeport, Connecticut.. Johnson and Mollison made it as far as India during the 1934 MacRobertson Race from England to Australia, and divorced soon after. Johnson flew military missions during World War II as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight.