Betty Jane “BJ” Williams was a pioneering pilot, educator and promoter of aviation. She earned her private pilot’s license in 1941, and during World War II, she served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) as an engineering test pilot.
21st century US Air Force veteran
In 1934, she received her pilot’s license, #2741, making her the first U.S.-born Chinese-American woman to earn one.
NASA astronaut and Air Force pilot
US WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot
US Representative from New Jersey and former naval helicopter pilot
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.
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.
Early 1800s French balloonist
US Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut