Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Aviation

WiR redlist index: Aviation

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia. Please note however that the red links on this list may well not be suitable as the basis for an article. All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria with reliable independent sources.

This is a Missing Articles worklist for Women in Red for women in Aviation, Aerospace, and other related fields.

Argentina

• Elida Carles - Argentinian pilot and Actress. Flew, with Susana Ferrari Billinghurst and Julia Perez Cattoni, to Uruguay, officially representing the Argentinian Government, in November 1943.
• Julia Perez Cattoni - Argentinian pilot. Flew, with Susana Ferrari Billinghurst and Elida Carles, to Uruguay, officially representing the Argentinian Government, in November 1943.

Belgium

• Yvonne Cunha, first Belgian woman airline pilot and first woman to pilot a Boeing commercial aircraft. [1]; [2]; [3]; [4]; [5]

Brunei

• Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem, first Bruneian senior first officer to fly a commercial airliner to Jeddah.

Canada

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Aviation

• Nora Bottomley - one of the first women to earn pilot wings with the Canadian Armed Forces
• Sarah Dallaire - second woman pilot with the Snowbirds in history [6]
• Mireille Goyer - started Women of Aviation Worldwide Week[7]

Chile

• Margot Uvalde, flew as a mail carrier in WWII, [8] -- not a ton of sources though

France

Victorin Garaix

• Victorin Garaix, a French WWI pilot.digital ID cph.3a48933.

Iran

• Ina Avshid, pioneer aviator in Iran, [9]
• Fatemeh Azadeh, first Iranian woman pilot, [10]
• Bahareh Bozorgzadegan one of the few Airbus pilots in Iran [11]
• Sadiqeh Dowlatshi, pioneer aviator in Iran, [12]
• Ozra Asgar Gilani, first woman in Imperial Iranian Air Force, [13], [14]
• Parvaneh Noorvar (Major and physician), first woman to be a senior officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force, [15]
• Shahrzad Shams first active Iranian woman airline pilot, [16]

Italy

• Fiorenza de Bernardi, first woman airline captain in Italy in 1969, [17]

Japan

• Kaneko Kitamura (Q11401951) (26 November 1903 - 26 July 1931), the first woman journalist reported from hot ballon. Herself a trainee aviator.
  
• Yone Nanji (Q11407640) (24 November 1890 - death date/year unknown), took aviation license in the United States of America, must be the earliest person.
  

Poland

• Katarzyna Tomiak, first Polish Mig pilot, [18]

Virginia Duțescu of "White Squadron"

Russia/USSR

• María Fortus, NKVD agent and part of the "Night Witches" leadership

South Africa

• Sizakele Mzimela, first black South African woman to own an airline, [19]
• Jane Trembath, first South African women to pilot a Boeing 747, [20]

South Korea

• Park Ji Won (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [21]
• Park Ji Yeon (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [22]
• Pyun Bo Ra, air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [23]

Sweden

Inga-Karin Ahlström, Swedish pilot who earned her pilot's license on 28 July 1931

• Inga-Karin Ahlström (not sure if she's notable)

Trinidad and Tobago

• Wendy Yawching - First Trinidadian woman became a captain in 1988.

UAE

• Nabila Al Awadhi, first woman aviation medicine physician in UAE [24]
• Noufa Al Afeefi, first woman air traffic controller in UAE [25]

UK

• Kate Moran (pilot), one of the youngest airline pilots in Britain, [26], [27]

US

6

• 602nd Aircraft Warning Service Women’s Army Corps Filter Company, [28]

A-C

• 
  Nancy Lee Baker
• 
  Ruth Clifford (pilot)
• 
  Patricia Collins (pilot)

• Anne Bridge Baddour, research pilot, [29], [30]
• Nancy Lee Baker, WASP pilot, may be borderline
• Trish Beckman US Navy aviator, [31], [32], [33]
• Edith O. Berg (usually known as Mrs. Hart O. Berg, first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane, was also the inspiration for a fashion trend, Hobble skirt and was the Wright Brother's business agent in Europe.[34], [35]
• Priscilla Blum, created the Corporate Angel Network, [36], [37], [38]
• Peggy Chabrian, founder of Women in Aviation, International, [39], [40], other sources in databases
• Marisol Chalas, first latina female National Guard Blackhawk helicopter pilot, [41]
• Ruth Clifford (pilot), a WASP, not the artist[42]
• Mabel Cody, a stunt (American)
• Patricia Collins (pilot) (Patricia Collins Hughes), a WASP, not a Fair City character].[43]

D-F

• 
  Wanda Ewing (pilot)
• 
  Claire M. Fahy
• 
  Isabel Fenton

• Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, chief training pilot at Boeing, [44], [45], [46]
• Manila Davis, 1920s aviator, [47]
• Andrea Deyling, first American zeppelin pilot, [48], [49]
• Arlene Elliot, aviation business [50], [51]
• Connie Engel/Connie J. Engel, first woman T-38 instructor and part of the Space shuttle program, [52]
• Wanda Ewing (pilot), notan artist from Nebraska; 1969 Powder Puff Derby copilot with Hazel Smothers
• Claire Mae Fahy - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Arlene B. Feldman, helicopter pilot, [53], [54]
• Isabel Fenton, WASP training graduate on Jul 3, 1943.

G-O

Mary Lamy

• Marion P. Jayne, aviation racing pioneer, [55], [56]
• Loretta Jones (aviator), helped change hiring practices at airlines, [57]
• Mary Lamy, a WASP[58]
• Charlotte Larson, first woman smoke jumper aircraft captain.
• Mary von Mach - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Mary Magdalene Maga/Maggie Maga, aviator mechanic for the Navy, [59]
• Patricia Malone (aviator) (1924-2008), a NAVY WAVE, [60], [61]
• Christine Mau (née Christine Callahan, call sign "Grinder"), retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, first woman to pilot an F-35 fighter jet, F-15E pilot, Iraqi War combat veteran, Air Force Academy graduate, served tour in Afghanistan [62]; [63]; [64]; [65]; [66]; [67]; [68]
• Madge Ragan Leon Moore, WASP Veteran recepient of Congressional Gold Medal; article on enwiki for "Women Airforce Service Pilots" and hewiki
• Gladys O'Donnell - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Gertrude Bernice Olson (1927–1994), better known as Trudy B. Cooper, the first wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper, she was an aviator before she met Cooper, but her life has been over shadowed by her more famous ex-husband.

P-Z

• 
  Wilda N. Winfield

• Neva Paris - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Margaret Perry (aviator) - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Audrey Poberezny, helped form the Experimental Aircraft Association, [69], [70], [71]
• Deanne Schulman, first woman to be qualified as a Smokejumper in 1984.
• Mary Silitch/Mary Frances Silitch (1935-), first woman to be editor-in-chief of a national aviation magazine, [72], [73]
• Jacqueline L. Smith, Navy air traffic controller, founded Professional Women Controllers with Sue Mostert, [74]
• Riley Speidel - at the age of 14, Speidel became the youngest person to fly solo in an aircraft across the United States by flying from California to Maine via a motorized glider in 2019. [75]; [76]; [77]; [78]
• Vera Dawn Walker - one of the 20 women who raced in the first Women's Air Derby
• Ruth Harman Walraven (1913-1993), Wisconsin aviator, [79]*Florene Miller Watson, WASP pilot, [80], [81], [82]
• Wilda N. Winfield, a WASP Class 1944-W-8.[83]

Vietnam

• Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, first woman Vietnamese pilot, [84]

Award winners

Further information: Women of Aviation Worldwide Week § List of Fly It Forward® Challenge title winners

Organizations

• Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance[85] (AWAM)[86]
• Australian Women Pilot's Association (AWPA)[87]
• International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA) [88]
• International Society of Women Airline Pilots(ISWAP)[89]

WWII, [90]

• Southern African Women in Aviation and Aerospace Industry (SAWIA), [91]
• Women's International Association of Aeronautics (WIAA); historical organization 1929-mid-1960s??? founded by Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen; [92]

Needs improvement

• Akram Monfared Arya, Swedish-Iranian pilot
• Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu, first Romanian pilot, (stub)
• Božena Laglerová, first Czech woman to earn a pilot's license (stub)
• Sibongile Sambo, South African (stub)
• Janine Shepherd, Australian pilot

Commons images without article

• Mabel Cody, a stunt (American)
• Virginia Duțescu (Q3967411) a member of "White Squadron", articles in frwiki, itwiki, rowiki.
• Claire M. Fahy, flight attendant [93]
• Isabel Fenton, WASP training graduate on Jul 3, 1943.
• Patricia Collins Hughes, a WASP.[94]
• Hazel Johnson (pilot) (nee Smothers) 1969 Powder Puff Derby air race competitor, rescue missions in her pink Bell 47 helicopter.
• Wanda Ewing (pilot), 1969 Powder Puff Derby competitor with Hazel Smothers and Cessna 172
• Madge Ragan Leon Moore, WASP recepient of Congressional Gold Medal; article on enwiki for "Women Airforce Service Pilots" and hewiki for "טייסות שירות חיל האוויר"
• Simona Maierean Română / Simona Maierean, first Romanian pilot on a MiG-21 Lancer; rowiki
• Victorin Garaix, a French WWI pilot.[95] digital ID cph.3a48933.
• Wilda N. Winfield, a WASP Class 1944-W-8.[96]
• Mary Anna Martin Wyall, a WASP, joined the final formal group reunion Sept. 25 to 28, 2008.
• Betty Wall Strohfus / Betty Wall, a Women Airforce Service Pilot, during the WWII era.