Leah Hing
In 1934, she received her pilot’s license, #2741, making her the first U.S.-born Chinese-American woman to earn one.
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Dr Cady Coleman
NASA astronaut and Air Force pilot
Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner
US WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot
Mikie Sherrill
US Representative from New Jersey and former naval helicopter pilot
Madeline Swegle
Madeline Swegle became the Navy’s first-known African-American woman to become a tactical air pilot when she earned her ‘wings of gold’ in 2020.
Barbara Rainey
The first woman pilot in the Navy, Lt. Cmdr. Rainey was commissioned in 1970. On July 13, 1982, she was killed in an aircraft accident while training another pilot.
Sophie Blanchard
Early 1800s French balloonist
Lt. Gen. Susan J Helms
US Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut
Gaby Kennard
In 1989, Gaby Kennard became the first Australian woman to fly solo around the world.
Col. Anne C McClain
US astronaut and army engineer