

Katherine Cheung (1904–2003), first Chinese-American woman to get a pilot's licence.Pearl Laska Chamberlain (1909–2012), first woman to solo a single-engine airplane up the Alaska Highway (1946).Beverly Burns (born 1949), American pilot, possibly the first woman to captain a jumbo jet (see Lynn Rippelmeyer) Īmelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra.Millicent Bryant (1878–1927), first woman to earn a pilot's licence in Australia.Mrs Victor Bruce (1895–1990), born Mildred Mary but most famous by her married name first woman to fly around the world alone and the first to be prosecuted for speeding.Willa Brown (1906–1992), first black woman to hold both a commercial and private licence in the US founded the National Negro Airmen Association of America first black female to be an officer in the Civil Air Patrol.Brown (born 1950), first African American female pilot for a major US carrier Ana Branger (born early 1920s), early Venezuelan aviator.Maude Bonney (1897–1994), Australian aviator who was the first female to fly from England to Australia in 1933 and to South Africa in 1937.Line Bonde (born c.1979), first Danish woman to become a fighter pilot, in 2006.Lilian Bland (1878–1971), built her own aircraft first woman to fly in Ireland.Susana Ferrari Billinghurst (1914–1999), Argentinian pilot first woman in South America to gain a commercial pilot's licence, in 1937.Dagny Berger (1903–1950), Norway's first woman aviator.Elly Beinhorn (1907–2007), German enthusiast who made long-distance flights on every continent and flew around the world.Amelie Beese (1886–1925), first woman pilot in Germany.Army Air Forces jet aircraft (a Bell YP-59A jet fighter) Ann Baumgartner (1918–2008), test pilot first American woman to fly a U.S.Jean Batten (1909–1982), made first solo flight from United Kingdom to New Zealand in the 1930s.Mary Barr (1925–2010), first female pilot to join the US Forest Service and become National Aviation Safety Officer.Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), granddaughter of balloonist Thaddeus Lowe founded the Women's Air Reserve, Associated Motion Picture Pilots and became the "mother of the Air Force".Willa Brown, the first African-American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Micky Axton (1919–2010), one of the first three Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) to be trained as a test pilot first woman to fly a B-29.Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000), French test pilot who rivalled Jacqueline Cochran in breaking speed records.Tamar Ariel (1989–2014), Israel's first Jewish female religiously observant air force pilot, in 2012.Cecilia Aragon (born 1960), first Latina pilot on the United States Aerobatic Team.Kimberly Anyadike (born 1994), youngest African-American female pilot to complete a transcontinental flight.Gaby Angelini (1911–1932), first Italian woman to complete a trans-European flight.Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1864–1927), second woman to attempt a flight across the Atlantic.Leman Altınçekiç (1932–2001), first female accredited jet pilot (1958) in Turkey and NATO.Margaret Adams, Australian aviator first president of the Australian Women's Flying Club, in 1938.

Aida de Acosta (1884–1962), first woman to fly a powered aircraft alone.Amen Aamir, first women from Gilgit-Baltistan to qualify as a pilot.
