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Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
She became the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing. [2] In April 2021, she was appointed to replace Major General John T. Rauch as Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force, and assumed office on August 13, 2021. [3]
Hampton died when the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter she was flying was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq on January 2, 2004. Captain Hampton was the first female military pilot in United States history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire. [5] [6] [7] She was also the first female combat casualty in Iraq from South Carolina.
It was the first loss of a Reconnaissance Mirage since the introduction in the 60'. The pilot died in the crash. [203] 2 April Craig D. Button (November 24, 1964 [204] —April 2, 1997), a United States Air Force pilot, dies when he mysteriously crashes a Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft in the Colorado
US Air Force lieutenant general MIG-23: Jackass Flats, Nevada, United States Reacted improperly to afterburner malfunction, lost aircraft control, fatally injured ejecting at excessive speed [19] Richard Bong: United States 1945 World War II fighter ace and test pilot Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star: Burbank, California, United States Pilot error
Mikoyan Chief Test Pilot Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Fedotov and his navigator Valeriy Zaitsev were both killed. 26 April United States Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond (1929–1984), Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command, is killed in a high-speed ejection from a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, out of Groom ...
Nicole Margaret Ellingwood Malachowski [3] (born 26 September 1974) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer and the first female pilot selected to fly as part of the USAF Air Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Thunderbirds. [4] She later became a speaker and advocate on behalf of patients with tick-borne illnesses. [5] [6]
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell (born April 20, 1976; née Ng A Qui) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, and the first female African-American fighter pilot in the history of that service. She flew the F-16 Fighting Falcon during combat missions in Operation Northern Watch.