Bonnie Johnson With Women In Aviation

According to Andrew Pitas, former historian with the Air Traffic Controllers Association, Mary Chance VanScyoc was one of the country’s first recognized female civilian air traffic Controller’s in the United States. […]

The Women Airforce Service Pilots, also known as WASP, and the predecessor groups the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) (official from September 10, 1942) were pioneering organizations of civilian female pilots. […]

Jean Gardner Batten, a strikingly beautiful New Zealand woman, became one of the world’s most popular and famous pilots when she established several individual flight distance records in the 1930s. […]

Starting in 1987 the Women’s History Month Project petitioned Congress to recognize the entire month of March as Women’s History Month. […]

Blanche Noyes (June 23, 1900 – October 1981) was an American pioneering female aviator who was among the first ten women to receive a pilot’s license. […]

In 1941, the New York Herald Tribune published a letter from a woman who was tired of sitting at home worrying about the war. “If I were only a man, there would be a place for me,” she wrote. Many women shared similar feelings of frustration, eager to play an active role in the conflict, but held back because by law and tradition. […]

Soon after Defense Secretary Les Aspin announced in 1993 that women could be placed in US military combat roles, the New York Air National Guard offered Maj. Jackie Parker an F-16 assignment. […]

Labor Day Weekend, 1922. Clear skies, mild temperatures, and the promise of a show that had already been postponed once because of bad weather. […]

She was only 100 feet off the ground in her first flying lesson when Kay Alley knew that she wanted to be a pilot. […]

Mary Chance VanScyoc was the first female civilian air traffic controller in the United States, according to Andrew Pitas. […]