Event Types: Aviation and Aeronautics

Alma Heflin becomes the first female test pilot for commercial aircraft, for Piper Corporation in Pennsylvania.

Pioneering international aviator Jean Batten lands in England, having flown from Australia in 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes, giving her solo records simultaneously in both directions; it was her […]

Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie.

Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.

Lotfia Al Nadi becomes Egypt’s first licensed female pilot.

O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women’s longest parachute jump (46,250 feet).

Bessica Medlar Raiche of Mineola, N.Y., makes the first accredited solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States.

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space; Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space; and Mamoru […]

Amelia Earhart embarked on a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, making her the first woman to fly solo, non-stop, from coast to coast.

Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into space.