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Julia Clark
Julia Clark sitting in an open cockpit in her plane.
Helen MacCloskey and Helen Richey
Helen MacCloskey and Helen Richey sit on a plane at the Cord Cup National Air Derby on Saturday August 20, 1932 in Washington, D.C. The Cord Cup National Air Derby was a transcontinental air race that had pilots beginning in Washington D.C. and Los…
Mary Haizlip
Mary Haizlip waves from her American Eagle plane. She is about to take off as a participant in the 1929 First Women's Air Derby from California to Ohio. It lasted from August 18 to August 26. The pioneer aviatrix was the second woman to receive…
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout
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 Uniform
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.
Portrait of Bessie Coleman
A portrait of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman's Graduation Picture
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman in her class graduation book. The picture was taken in September 1943 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman next to PT-19 Primary Trainer
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.
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Trainees
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…
Yvonne “Pat” Pateman at Yokota Air Base
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.
Blanche Noyes in Advertisement Aircraft
Aviatrix Blanche Noyes poses for a photograph is a Weiant Aircraft Sales Co. of Newark, Ohio aircraft.
Louise Sacchi
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.
Virginia Thomas
Aviatrix Virgina Thomas standing next to a plane. She is wearing an Amelia Earhart medallion pendant and a Ninety-Nines pin.
Harriet Quimby in Bleriot Airplane
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…
Rosella Bjornson
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.
Blanche Noyes Receiving an Award
Blanche Noyes receives award at Salem College.
First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer
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…
Lynn Rippelmeyer on a Seaboard World Airline Boeing 747
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 Nichols World Altitude Flight
Ruth Nichols standing in front of her plane, wearing a fur flight suit by Akita. This picture was taken before her world altitude record flight.
Ruth Law and Her Curtiss Pusher Aircraft
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…
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran and a Staggerwing Beech
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in front of her plane that is adorned with a victory wreath.
1929 Women’s Air Derby at the Paul Cox Airfield
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.
Deedee Moorman, Colonel Tibbets, and Dora Dougherty
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,…
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran in T-38
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
French aviatrix Baroness Raymonde de Laroche sitting at the controls of a pusher biplane. She was the first woman to ever receive a pilot's license.