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Theresa Claiborne having her wings pinned on by her mother. On June 20, 1981, Claiborne was commissioned as second lieutenant in the USAF. [8] She became the first African-American female pilot in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Laughlin Air Force Base on September 16, 1982 with the class 82-08.
Melissa "M'Lis" Ward is a United Airlines pilot, the first African-American female captain in commercial passenger aviation, according to Ebony magazine. [1] Her mother, Anne B. Ward, was one of the first two black women to graduate from the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Captain Theresa Claiborne flew military jets before becoming a commercial pilot for United Airlines. Now after 43 years, she’s hanging up her pilot’s wings.
Claiborne went on to become the second Black female pilot at United Airlines and went on to become a captain as well. As a Black female in uniform, however, Clairborne said she was mistaken for a ...
Bonnie Tiburzi (born 1948), first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline. Bobbi Trout (1906–2003), set endurance records and was the first woman to fly all night [68] [69]
Aviation is a male-dominated industry. Here's what it's like to be a female pilot for the U.S. carrier with the highest percentage of female pilots.
Patrice Washington (born 1961) is a Bahamian airplane pilot, whose career was marked by a series of firsts.She was the first black woman graduate of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida; first woman pilot of Bahamasair; first black woman captain of a major U.S. air service and first black female pilot hired by the United Parcel Service.
Kimberly Ndidi Anyadike (born February 1, 1994) is an American pilot from Compton, California.In 2009, at the age of 15, she became the youngest African American woman to complete a transcontinental flight across the United States, from Los Angeles, California to Newport News, Virginia.