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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]
Kara Hultgreen became the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [120] CAPT Susan Brooker, USNR, became the first woman to assume command of a U.S. Naval Reserve Readiness Command. [7] AZCS Hedy Rogers-Jones became the first senior enlisted female assigned to VFA-22 in the U.S. Navy. [7]
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 ...
The first air-to-air victory by a female pilot comes 30 years after Lt. Kara Hultgreen became the first carrier-based female fighter pilot in the Navy, flying the F-14 Tomcat off the USS Abraham ...
Tammie Jo Shults (born Bonnell; born November 2, 1961) is an American retired commercial airline captain, author, and former naval aviator.She was one of the first female fighter pilots to serve in the United States Navy.
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]
Michael Toscano, Missy Cummings and Shane Harris at #FTdrones panel. Cummings spent eleven years (1988–1999) as a naval officer and military pilot, earning the rank of lieutenant, and was one of the United States Navy's first female fighter pilots, flying an F/A-18 Hornet. [5]