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10 Famous Women Pilots

To say that women in aviation have gone to great miles to break the glass ceiling is an understatement. However, this did not deter these great women who went a long way to make a name for themselves in the aviation. These women who gained an interest in aviation took it upon themselves to see their passion to fruition.

This list gives profiles of famous women pilots in the aviation industry. It is a list of many firsts and broken glass ceilings. Enjoy!

1. Amelia Earhart

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This list of the most famous female pilots will be incomplete if Amelia Earhart is not mentioned. Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic ocean solo. This monumental event occurred in 1932. A household name in the aviation industry, Amelia was one of the first pilots to promote commercial air travel.

She was also part of the people who formed an organization for female pilots called The Ninety-Nines. Amelia was born in 1897. She disappeared in 1939. Amelia had intended to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. However, she disappeared in this flight. She was last seen on her stop at Lae, New Guinea.

2. Bessie Coleman

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Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman pilot. In an effort to jumpstart her aviation career, Bessie was denied entrance to an American aviation school. She decide to learn French and seek to enroll in an aviation school in France.

Her efforts bore fruit when she was admitted at 脡cole d鈥橝viation de Fr猫res Caudron which was an iconic aviation school then. In the same spirit, Bessie was the first Black person to earn an international pilot’s license. She was widely known for her dangerous air shows in United States. Bessie died in a plane crash in 1926.

3. Jerrie Mock

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Jerrie Mock is the face of badass in the aviation industry. A housewife at 38 years, Jerrie became the first woman to travel the world alone. The journey took 29 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes. It is for this reason that Jerrie Mock was awarded the Federal Aviation Administration Gold Medal.

Jerrie Mock published her story of the flight round the world in the book Three-Eight Charlie. A plaque that honors her achievements was mounted at the Tallahassee Regional Airport’s Aviation Wall of Fame in Tallahassee, Florida.

4. Dolores Moggridge

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Dolores was the first female airline captain of scheduled passenger services. This beauty with brains was born in South Africa. She had an interest in aviation from a very age. She learned to fly and got her 鈥楢鈥� flying license. This was just in time for her to start flying at the age of fifteen.

At 17 years old only, Dolores was the first woman to jump from a parachute. She was recruited to the ATA, women’s airfoce during the war in United Kingdom by the Women’s Commandar in July 1940. Moggridge was one of the youngest of the female pilots at the time. She flew more than 1,500 aircraft of 83 different types in her lifetime.

5. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak

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Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. She was in fact the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy’s aircraft. From an early age, Lydia was interested in aviation.

She enrolled in a flying club at 14 years old. Lydia had her first solo flight at 15. Later on, she graduated from the Kherson military flying school. She is the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace. She also holds the record of the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot.

6. Elinor Smith

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Elinor Smith was the youngest licensed pilot in the world at age 16. She was widely known as “The Flying Flapper of Freeport”. Elinor began her flying classes from age 10. Her classes were facilitated by Clyde Pangborn.

After some rigorous training, Elinor managed to do a solo flight at age 16. She then got a F茅d茅ration A茅ronautique Internationale (FAI) license and an FAI-certified barograph at the same age. This made her the youngest U.S.-government-licensed pilot on record. She died at age on March 19, 2010, in Palo Alto, California.

7. Jeannie Leavitt

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Jeannie Leavitt was the U.S. Air Force’s first female fighter pilot in 1993. Further, she was also the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing. Jeannie did her Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas in 1992.

Under her belt, she has over 3,000 flight hours and over 300 combat hours. On April 2021, Jeannie was appointed to replace Major General John T. Rauch as Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force.

8. Blanche 鈥淏etty鈥� Stuart Scott

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This was the first American woman aviator. Blanche was the second woman, after Alice Huyler Ramsey, to drive an automobile across the United States. The publicity surrounding the automobile journey brought her to the attention of Jerome Fanciulli and Glenn Curtiss.

They then agreed to provide her with flying lessons in Hammondsport, New York. Under their instructions, she flew to an altitude of forty feet. Her flight was short and possibly unintentional but Scott is credited by the Early Birds of Aviation as the first woman to pilot and solo in an airplane in the United States.

9. Opal Kunz

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Opal Kunz was the first woman pilot to race with men in an open competition in 1930. She was the chief organizer of the Betsy Ross Air Corps and a charter member of the Ninety-Nines organization of women pilots. Opal made it her personal mission to encourage other to join the aviation industry. Opal did this through frequent press interviews and radio addresses. She later on died in 1967.

10. Carole Hopson

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Pilot Carole Hopson flies a Boeing 737 for a living as a United Airlines first officer. Hopson has wanted to fly a plane since she was a little girl. She has had various careers including journalism and a career in media relations.

She also worked in human resources at the National Football League as the player programs coordinator and then as the vice president and director of training and development at Foot Locker. It is after this that Carole chased her true passion in aviation.