Pioneering Female Aviators
Pioneering Female Aviators is a structured people dataset with 16 entries. Its fields include Name, Country, Lifespan. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 16 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Name, Country, Lifespan, First Flight, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Lifespan span
- 1875 to 1937
- Across 16 preview rows
- First Flight range
- 1,909 to 1,959
- Across 16 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Country, and Lifespan across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 16 downloadable records
Name↕ | Country↕ | Lifespan↕ | First Flight↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amelia Earhart | United States | 1897-1937 | 1,921 | First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932), disappeared over the Pacific attempting world circumnavigation |
Bessie Coleman | United States | 1892-1926 | 1,921 | First African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license, trained in France |
Harriet Quimby | United States | 1875-1912 | 1,911 | First American woman to earn a pilot's license, first woman to fly across the English Channel |
Jacqueline Cochran | United States | 1906-1980 | 1,932 | Head of WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots, first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953 |
Beryl Markham | United Kingdom | 1902-1986 | 1,931 | First person to fly solo nonstop east-to-west across the Atlantic from Britain to North America (1936) |
Amy Johnson | United Kingdom | 1903-1941 | 1,929 | First woman to fly solo from England to Australia (1930), died in service during WWII |
Jean Batten | New Zealand | 1909-1982 | 1,930 | First person to fly solo from England to New Zealand (1936), celebrated as Garbo of the Skies |
Raymonde de Laroche | France | 1882-1919 | 1,909 | First woman in the world to receive a pilot's license (1910), set multiple altitude records |
Hanna Reitsch | Germany | 1912-1979 | 1,932 | Germany's first female test pilot, flew the Me 163 rocket plane and early helicopters |
Valentina Grizodubova | Soviet Union | 1909-1993 | 1,928 | First woman awarded Hero of the Soviet Union, led WWII long-range bomber regiment |
Sabiha Gokcen | Turkey | 1913-2001 | 1,935 | World's first female fighter pilot, adopted daughter of Ataturk, Istanbul airport bears her name |
Pancho Barnes | United States | 1901-1975 | 1,928 | First woman stunt pilot in Hollywood, broke Earhart's women's air speed record in 1930 |
Katherine Stinson | United States | 1891-1977 | 1,912 | Fourth woman in US to earn pilot license, first woman to fly airmail, looped the loop in 1915 |
Ruth Law | United States | 1887-1970 | 1,912 | Set nonstop cross-country distance record Chicago to New York state in 1916, early aerial stunts |
Maryse Bastie | France | 1898-1952 | 1,925 | Set women's solo South Atlantic crossing record (1936), decorated French WWII resistance aviator |
Valentina Tereshkova | Soviet Union | 1937-present | 1,959 | First woman in space aboard Vostok 6 in 1963, remains only woman to fly a solo space mission |
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