Women in Aviation History

Since the Wright Brothers took flight in 1903, women have made a significant contribution to aviation. The following is just a small sampling of the contributions women have made to the field of aviation.

Juanita Bailey - The Flying Beautician

Elly Beinhorn and the origin of the Amelia Earhart postage stamp

Bessie Coleman Biography

Bessie Coleman Website

Achsa Donnels - Honored by 99s on her 99th Birthday

Amelia Earhart - a timeline

We Take to the Air - excerpt from For the Fun of It by Amelia Earhart

The Story of the 49½s - by George Putnam - Excerpted from: Forgotten Husband, Pictorial Review, December 1932

Lois Feigenbaum by Sue Feigenbaum-Ackley

Phyllis Fleet - Charter member

"Mercury 13" Story by Wally Funk

Betty Huyler Gillies

Candis (Hitzig Gullino) Hall - Charter Member

Laura Frances Brooks Harney

Teresa James - Pioneer Pilot

Amy Johnson - Pioneer Airwoman

Ruth Law - 1916 - Setting a new American record for a distance flight

Dorothea "Didi" Moorman - WASP - B-29 Pilot

Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey

Gladys O'Donnell - Charter Member

Thea Rasche - 1st German 99

Mabel Virginia Rawlinson - Pilot, Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

Louise Sacchi - Aviation Highlights

Beverely "Bev" Sharp - Ninety-Nines International President 1998-2000

Sharpie: The Life Story of Evelyn Sharp - Nebraska's Aviatrix 

Dora Strother - WASP - B-29 Pilot

Mary Chance Van Scyoc - Early ATC Pioneer

Bobbi Trout - Record Maker

Margaret Thomas "Tommy" Warren - The Early Years...

Margaret Thomas "Tommy" Warren and Josephine "Jody" Wood - The End of an Era

Nancy Bird Walton - Australia's Pioneering Aviatrix

Fay Gillis Wells - Charter Member

Ann Wood-Kelly - Aviation Pioneer

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