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[a] She was hired in 1976 by American Airlines as their third female pilot. [2] In 1986, Bass became the first female captain of a commercial plane at American Airlines [3] and later that year she captained the first all-female crew in the history of commercial jet aviation, on an American Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas.
Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly the Boeing 747, the first woman to captain a 747 trans-oceanic, part of the first all-female crew, and first flight attendant to become an airline pilot. In retirement, she authored two books to chronicle her aviation journey - Life Takes Wings and Life Takes Flight and founded the nonprofit, ROSE ...
Lynn Rippelmeyer started out as a flight attendant in 1972. A few years later, she was part of a record-breaking all-female crew and became the first woman to pilot a 747.
February 12: The first all-African American, female flight crew flies from Nashville to Atlanta round-trip. [269] Virginie Guyot of France is the first woman to lead a national aerobatic team. [1] Kimberly Anyadike, aged 15, becomes the youngest African-American woman to pilot a plane solo across the United States. [270]
First all-female airliner crew: was the American Airlines Boeing 727 flown from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas captained by Beverley Bass on December 30, 1986. [249] First helicopter to the North Pole: was a Bell Jetranger III flown by Dick Smith on April 28, 1987. [250] Tupolev Tu-155, the first aircraft to fly solely on hydrogen
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.
The following year, Captain Yap was the first to pilot an all-female crew in the Anglo-Caribbean. [151] On 9 September 1976, Asli Hassan Abade soloed her first flight as the only female pilot in the Somali Air Force. [166] [197] In 1977, Cheryl Pickering-Moore and Beverley Drake of Guyana became the first two women pilots of the Guyana Defence ...
Nov. 18—According to Hawaiian Airlines, in 2022 it had the highest number of female pilots among all major U.S. airlines, with over 9.5 % of its pilots being female, compared with a global ...