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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]
After deliberately exaggerating her pre-war flight time by 100 hours, she joined the all-female 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defense Force, [12] which was formed by Marina Raskova. She trained there on the Yakovlev Yak-1 aircraft. A wrecked Junkers Ju 88: Litvyak's very first kill was an aircraft of this type
A U.S. Navy fighter jet pilot became the first female to score an air-to-air kill while she was deployed to fight against the Houthis in the Red Sea, where the Iranian-backed group has battled ...
“During one mission, VFA-32 became home to the first American female pilot to engage and kill an air-to-air contact,” it said. The first air-to-air victory by a female pilot comes 30 years ...
First woman to fly for a major U.S. airline: Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female pilot for a major U.S. airline, American Airlines, in March 1973. First manned flight by an electrically powered aeroplane : was made with a Brditschka MB-E1 , a modified motor glider with an 8–10 kW (11–13 hp) Bosch KM77 electric motor on October 23, 1973.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.
Barbara Ann Allen Rainey (August 20, 1948 – July 13, 1982) was one of the first six female pilots in the U.S. armed forces. [2] Rainey received her wings of gold as the first female to be designated a naval aviator in February 1974 [3] and became the first Navy woman to qualify as a jet pilot. [2]
Kimberly Nicole Hampton (August 18, 1976 – January 2, 2004) was a captain in the United States Army and the first female military pilot in United States history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire. She was also the first woman from South Carolina to die in the Iraq War.