Nancy Bird Walton and Peggy McKillop

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Title

Nancy Bird Walton and Peggy McKillop

Subject

Women air pilots -- Australia.

Description

Black and white photograph of Nancy Bird Walton (left), Peggy McKillop (center), and a passenger standing next to a biplane. Walton and McKillop are both in flight suits and helmets.

Caption on the back of the image reads "Left to right, Nancy Bird, Peggy McKillop and passenger barnstorming in New South Wales Australia in 1935. The first women in Australia to do so. Nancy called it the first Ladies Flying Tour of Australia. Flights were ten shillings."

Source

IWASM Photo Archives

Date

1935

Rights

Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests contact the International Women's Air & Space Museum at collections@iwasm.org.

Identifier

Photo No. 78

Coverage

New South Wales, Australia

Original Format

Photograph

Citation

“Nancy Bird Walton and Peggy McKillop,” International Women's Air & Space Museum, accessed October 8, 2024, https://iwasm.omeka.net/items/show/1342.