Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout was an early aviator who participated in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. In this picture from 1929, Trout is modeling a newly designed electrically-heated flying suit. Trout and Elinor Smith were the first women's team to set the…
Bessie Coleman in a military uniform stands in front of an airplane's front rudder. Coleman was the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a trainee of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), stands by a Primary trainer, PT-19 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas in March 1943.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trainees from the class of 43-5 gather beside and on an airplane in Sweetwater, Texas. From left to right in the back row are Mary Ann Wetherby and Ellen Croxton. In the front row are Margaret Cox, Edna…
Captain Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), working among assigned troops at the Target Intelligence Center at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Japan during World War II.
Louise Sacchi standing beside a Beechcraft plane in front of a Beechcraft factory. She is wearing “The Spanish Medal.” Sacchi was preparing to deliver the Spanish Fleet of Beechcraft airplanes to Spain in 1971.
Famous aviatrix Harriet Quimby sits in the seat of a Bleriot plane. She was the first female pilot in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. This picture was taken during her flight across the English Channel on…
First Officer Rosella Bjornson of Pacific Western Airlines (formerly with Transair of Canada.) She was the first Canadian woman jet pilot and the first woman in North America to fly as copilot on a jet aircraft for a scheduled air carrier.
First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer at the controls of a Seaboard World Airlines Boeing 747. In 1980, Rippelmeyer was the first woman to fly as a pilot on the Boeing 747. She was later hired by People Express Airlines, where she was a co-captain of the…
First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer at the loading stairs of a Seaboard World Airline Boeing 747. In 1980, Rippelmeyer was the first woman to fly as a pilot on the Boeing 747. She later was hired by People Express Airlines, where she was a co-captain of…
Ruth Law sits with her hands at the lever controls of her self-built aircraft. The hand-written caption on the back of the photograph reads "Center section view of Curtiss Model E. [illegible] which I had built for my exhibition flight and won med…
Three planes that flew in the 1929 Women's Air Derby at the Paul Cox Air Field in Terre Haute, Indiana. The race began in Santa Monica, California on August 18 and ended in Cleveland, Ohio on August 26.
From left to right are Deedee Moorman, brigadier general Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., and Dora Dougherty (Strother). Colonel Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, taught the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Moorman and Strother to fly the B-29,…
Katherine Irons and Winifred Wood wearing army issued flight suits at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas during their Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training.
Geraldine “Jerri” Sloan Truhill kneels to polish the wing of a Beech Bonanza plane while her co-pilot, Martha Ann Reading, lays underneath the plane. The women are preparing the Beechcraft Bonanza H-35 for the 12th All Women's Transcontinental Air…