Famous Girl Aviators

Elisabeth Thible

Jun 1, 1784

Thible was the first woman aloft- in a hot air baloon.

Harriet Quimby

Jul 31, 1911

Harriet Quimby is the first woman to get her pilot's license. Also the 2nd woman in the world.

Katherine Stinson

Jul 24, 1912

Stinson got her pilot's license at age 21. She was the youngest woman to get her's.

Marjorie Stinson

Aug 12, 1914

Marjorie got her pilot's license 2 years after her sister.

Bessie Coleman

Jan 1, 1920

In 1920 Bessie Coleman went to France and became the first Afercan American to get her pilot's license.

Elinor Smith

Jan 1, 1927

Elinor was the youngst woman to get her pilot's license at age 16.

Bessie Coleman Died

Apr 30, 1927

Bessie Coleman tragicly died while she was flying on an airplane. She was unable to make a flight school for Afercian Americans.

Mary Riddle

Jan 1, 1930

Mary Riddle was the first Native American girl to get her piolit's license.

Florence "Pancho" Barnes

Sep 4, 1930

Barnes broke the women's speed record.

Amelia Earhart

May 20, 1932

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by herself.

Wila Brown

Jan 1, 1937

Wila Brown opened a Afrcian American flight school.

Betty Skelton

Jan 1, 1948

She won her first International Aerobatic Champion for Women trophy with her Pitts Special S-1C biplane, “Little Stinker.”

Jacqueline Auriol

Jan 1, 1949

Auriol was a passenger on an airplane when it crashed. She had 22 surgeries to put her face back together. When, she was at the hospital she asked a surgen, " Will I be able to fly again?"

Jacquelin Cochran

May 18, 1953

Cochran was the first woman aviator to brake the sound barrier.

Patty Waggstaff

Jan 1, 1991

Waggstaff was the first woman to win the title of U.S. National Aerobatic Champion.