Asli Hassan Abade
“the first female pilot in the Somali Air Force”

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Janet Harmon Bragg
(1907-1993)
The first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot License

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Jill E. Brown
(1950- )
The first African American woman to serve as a pilot for a major U.S airline

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Willa B. Brown Chappell
(1906-1992)
One of a small group of pre-World War II black women aviators

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 Bessie Coleman
(1892–1926)
the first black women to gain an international permit to fly.

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Lillian Dukes
Vice President of Technical Services for American Eagle Airlines

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Army 1st Lt. Demetria N. Elosiebo
Army aviator becomes DC National Guard’s first African-American female pilot

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Lieutenant Jeanine McIntosh-Menze
(1979-)
the first black female to successfully complete flight training and be assigned as a pilot in the US Coast Guard.

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Dorothy Layne McIntyre
(1917-)
One of the first black women to become a licensed pilot in the United States.

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Marcella A. Ng
(1956-)
The first black woman military pilot (Army) in 1979

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Patrice Clarke-Washington
(1961-)
The first Black females to graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Stephanie D. Wilson
(1966-)
The second African American woman to go into space,

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