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Beverley Bass (born March 27, 1952) [1] is an American aircraft pilot and was the first female captain of an American Airlines commercial plane. [a] She was hired in 1976 by American Airlines as their third female pilot. [2]
Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer.On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
In 1973, at age 24, she became the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline. [1] She flew as a Captain on the Boeing 727, Boeing 757 and the Boeing 767. In 1986 Tiburzi wrote her autobiography, Takeoff: The Story of America's First Woman Pilot for a Major Airline. [3]
Mary Barr (1925–2010), first female pilot to join the US Forest Service and become National Aviation Safety Officer [6] Jean Batten (1909–1982), made first solo flight from United Kingdom to New Zealand in the 1930s; Ann Baumgartner (1918–2008), test pilot; first American woman to fly a U.S. Army Air Forces jet aircraft (a Bell YP-59A jet ...
Bonnie Tiburzi is the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline, [153] as well as the first woman in the world to earn a Flight Engineer rating on a turbo-jet aircraft. [154] The United States Navy allows women to train as pilots. [155]
Emily Joyce Howell Warner (née Hanrahan; October 30, 1939 – July 3, 2020) was an American airline pilot and the first woman captain of a scheduled U.S. airline. [2]In 1973, Warner was the first woman pilot to be hired by a scheduled U.S. airline since Helen Richey was hired as a co-pilot in 1934.
A US Navy fighter pilot has become the first American woman to score a victory in air-to-air combat, the service has revealed. The female pilot, who was not named in the Navy release, was flying ...
Harriet Quimby became the first licensed female pilot in America on August 1, 1911. On April 16, 1912, she was the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. She pointed the direction for future women pilots including her friend, Matilde Moisant, buried at the Portal of the Folded Wings.