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Millicent Bryant
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Millicent Bryant – Australia

Millicent Bryant (1878-1927) became the first Australian woman to be earn a pilot license on March 28, 1927. Unfortunately, just seven months later, she drowned in a ferry accident in […]

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Gladys Sandford
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Gladys Sandford – New Zealand

Gladys Sandford (1891-1971) was the first woman in New Zealand to earn a pilot licence (No. 18). Forced to support herself, Mrs Sandford worked as a motorcar saleswoman and taught […]

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Kwon Ki-ok
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Kwon Ki-ok – Korean

Born in Pyongyang’s Sangsugu Village, Korea, Kwon Ki-ok (1901 – 1988) she was inspired to learn to fly after seeing a 1917 aerobatics demonstration by American stunt pilot Art Smith. […]

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Hyodo Tadashi
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Tadashi Hyodo – Japan

After working two years to get her license in the male-dominated Japanese society, Tadashi Hyodo was the first Japanese woman to earn a pilot license.

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Teresa de Marzo
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Teresa de Marzo – Brazil

Teresa de Marzo (1903 – 1986) decided to become a pilot at seventeen years of age. When she revealed her desire, she faced strong opposition from family, immigrants from Naples, […]

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Amalia Celia Figueredo
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Amalia Celia Figueredo – Argentina

Amalia Celia Figueredo (1895 – 1985) settled down in the environs of the Villa Lugano aerodrome in 1914. She became acquainted with the Frenchman Paul Castaibert, aviator and builder of […]

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Else Haugk
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Else Haugk – Switzerland

Else Haugk (last name also sometimes spelled Haugh), a Swiss, travelled to Gemany to take flying lessons. She earned a German pilot license number 785 on June 6th 1914. She […]

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Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu
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Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu – Romania

Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (1887 – 1929) was the daughter of doctor Caragiani and Zenia Radovici. She was interested in flying and considered flying as a field specialist like her brother, Lieutenant […]

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Rosina Ferrario
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Rosina Ferrario – Italy

Born in Milan into a wealthy bourgeois family, Rosina Ferrario (1888 – 1959) showed an early interest in sports, and especially mountain climbing. She learned to drive a car, and […]

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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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