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Marylise Ben Haïm – Algeria

Marylise Ben Haïm (1928 – 2001) was born in Algiers. Both her parents were Jewish; her father, Moses Ben Haïm, was Berber while her mother, Sultana Stora, was Andalusian. At […]

July 25, 2015 Centennial Team
Touria Chaoui
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Touria Chaoui – Morocco

Touria Chaoui (1936 – 1956) was born in Fez. From a young age, Touria had a passion for anything that flew, sensitive to the slightest sound of an airplane flying […]

July 25, 2015 Centennial Team
Effat Tejaratchi
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Effat Tejaratchi – Iran

Returning from an official visit to Turkey in 1939, Reza Shah ordered the founding of the Iranian Aero Club. Effat Tejaratchi (1917 – 1999), who at the age of 22 […]

July 25, 2015 Centennial Team
Sarla Thakral
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Sarla Thakral – India

Sarla Thakral (1916 – 2008) was only 21 year old when she became the first Indian woman to earn a pilot licence in 1936. Her husband P. D. Sharma was […]

July 25, 2015 Centennial Team
Loftia Al Nadi
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Loftia Al Nadi – Egypt

In 1933, at the age of 26, Lotfia El Nadi (1907 – 2002) became the first Egyptian female to earn a pilot licence in Egypt. In order to achieve her […]

July 24, 2015 Centennial Team
Gökmen Baci
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Bedriye Tahir Gökmen – Turkey

Bedriye Tahir Gökmen (a.k.a Gökmen Baci) was the first Turkish woman to earn a pilot licence in 1933 after training at the Vecihi Flight School.

July 24, 2015 Centennial Team

Ruthy Tu – China

Ruthy Tu became the first Chinese woman to earn a pilot licence (second woman to hold a Chinese pilot licence) in 1932. She trained in the Chinese Army.

July 24, 2015 Centennial Team
Maria Bernaldo de Quiros
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María Bernaldo de Quirós – Spain

María Bernaldo de Quirós ( 1913 – 2015 ) learned to fly at the Academy of the Royal Aero Club of Spain in Getafe. On November 24 1928, Bernaldo became […]

July 24, 2015 Centennial Team
Eileen Vollick
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Eileen Vollick – Canada

Eileen Vollick (1908-1968) became the first Canadian woman to obtain a pilot licence in March 1928. Born in Wiarton, Ontario, she became a textile analyst at the Hamilton Cotton Company […]

July 24, 2015 Centennial Team

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Virginie Guyot – France

Virginie Guyot – France

Born in Angers, France, Virginie Guyot (1976 – ) went on a discovery flight when she was 12 years old. Thereafter, she decides to become a pilot. She goes to […]

Eileen Collins – USA

Eileen Collins – USA

Collins’s parents were immigrants from Ireland. As a child, Eileen Collins (1956 – ) expressed an interest both in space flight and in being a pilot. After graduating from Elmira […]

Barbara Harmer – England

Barbara Harmer – England

Born in Bognor Regis, England, Barbara Harmer (1954 – 2011) left school aged 15 to pursue a career in hairdressing. Harmer’s first experience in the aviation industry was six years [...]

Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock – USA

Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock – USA

After having had several jobs, Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock (1925 – 2014), née Fredritz became manager of the Colombus Airport (Ohio). She had married Russell Mock in 1945 and they had […]

Valentina Tereshkova – Russia

Valentina Tereshkova – Russia

Valentina Tereshkova (1937 – ) was born in a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast in western Russia. Tereshkova’s father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a […]

Ada Rogato – Brazil

Ada Rogato – Brazil

Ada Rogato (1910 – 1986) received from her parents, Italian immigrants, the same education given to most women of that time – but she wanted to learn to fly. She […]

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