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Jean Batten
New Zealand aviator (1909-1982)

Niloofar Rahmani
Afghan aviator
Touria Chaoui
Moroccan pilot (1936-1956)
Lotfia Elnadi
First African/Arab woman to earn a pilot licence (1933)
Margot Duhalde Sotomayor
Chilean aviator (1920–2018)
Elsa Andersson
Sweden's first woman aviator and stunt parachutist (1897–1922)
Asli Hassan Abade
Somali air force commander
Marylise Ben-Haim
Algerian novelist and poet (1928–2001)
Park Kyung-won
Korean aviator (1901–1933)
Ninety-Nines
The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots, also known as The 99s, is an international organization that provides networking, mentoring, and flight scholarship opportunities to recreational and professional female pilots. Founded in 1929, the
Ninety-Nines has 153 chapters and 27 regional 'sections' across the globe as of 2022, including a 'virtual' chapter, Ambassador 99s, which meets online for those who are too busy or mobile to be in one region for long.
Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu
Romanian aviator (1887-1929)
Lilly Steinschneider
Austro-Hungarian aviator
Mariam al-Mansouri
First Emirati female fighter pilot

Irene Koki Mutungi
First female Boeing 787 captain in Africa
Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi
Saudi Arabian aviator
Destinée Ermela Doukaga
Congolese politician, writer and pilot (* 1983)

Elvy Kalep
Estonian aviator and artist (1899-1989)
Božena Laglerová
pioneer aviator (1886–1941)
Beatrix de Rijk
Dutch aviator, first Dutch woman pilot (1883–1958)
Neshat Jahandari
pilot
Ada Rogato
pilot
Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi
First Ghanaian female civilian pilot and aircraft engeneer
María Eugenia Rojas Correa
Colombian politician
Melody Millicent Danquah
Ghanaian aviator
Luisa Elena Contreras Mattera
Venezuelan aviator
Maria Teixeira
first Portuguese woman to hold a pilot’s licence
Geneviève Gemayel
Lebanese political figure, pilot and artist (1908-2003)
Nawal al-Hawsawi
politician
Effat Tejaratchi
first Iranian female aviator
women in aviation
role of women aviators in history
Zenab Issa Oki Soumaïne
First female aircraft captain from Chad
Ingrid Pedersen
Swedish-American aviator

Audrey Esi Swatson
Ghana’s youngest female commercial pilot
Erin Overcash
American aerospace engineer (born 1986)
Sharifah Czarena
aviator

Else Haugk
(1889-1973)
Amen Aamir
Pakistani pilot
Asnath Mahapa
South African pilot
Hermelinda Urvinayruk
Ecuadorian aviator (1905–2008)