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Women in Air and Space
Compiled by Caroline Miniscule

A database - UNDER CONSTRUCTION - of female pilots and astronauts referenced in books.

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They belonged to the sky, and the sky has taken them.
Anderson, Maia
Bassett, Adelaide
Bernard, Susanne
Blanchard, Marie
*Bessie Coleman**
Jane Champlin**
Susan Clarke
Marjorie Davis
Katherine Dussac
*Amelia Earhart
Marjorie Edwards
Jane Erickson
*Cornelia Fort
Francis Grimes
Mary Hartson
Mary Howson
Amy Johnson
Viola Kavanaugh
Edith Keene
LaRoche, Raymonde da**
Kathryn Lawrence
*Hazel Ying Lee
Paula Loop
Alice Lovejoy
Lea McDonald
Peggy Martin
Virginia Moffat
Denise Moore
Beverly Moses**
Dorothy Nichols
Jean Norbeck
Margaret Oldenburg
*Harriet Quimby
Mabel Rawlinson
Gleanna Roberts
Marie Robinson**
Gladys Roy
Bettie Scott
Dorothy Scott**
Margaret Seip**
Helen Severson**
Marie Sharon**
Evelyn Sharp
Betty Stine
Marian Toevs
Gertrude Tompkins-Silver
Mary Trebing
Mary Webster
Bonnie Welz
Betty Wood
*Christa McAuliffe
*Judith Resnick
*Kalpana Chawla
*Laurel Clark
*Nancy Lynn
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1892 - 1926
1917 - 1943
1918 - 1944
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? - 1944
1897-1937
1918 - 1943
1921 - 1944
1919 - 1943
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1917 - 1944
1919 - 1944
1903-1941
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? - 1944
1886-1919
1920 - 1943
1912 - 1944
1916 - 1944
1919 - 1944
1921 - 1944
1912 - 1944
? - 1943
? - 1911
1923 - 1944
? - 1944
1912 - 1944
? - 1943
1875 - 1912
1917 - 1943
1919 - 1944
? - 1944
? - 1927
1921 - 1944
1920 - 1943
1916 - 1943
1918 - 1943
1917 - 1944
1919 - 1944
? - 1944
? - 1944
1912 - 1944
1920 - 1944
1919 - 1944
1918 - 1944
1921 - 1943
1948 - 1986
1949 - 1986
1961 - 2003
1961 - 2003
1956 - 2006
Pilot
Parachutist
Student pilot
Balloonist
Pilot
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
Pilot
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
ATA Pilot
Parachutist
WASP
Pilot
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
Student pilot
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
Pilot/Wingwalker***
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
WASP
Astronaut
Astronaut
Astronaut
Astronaut
Pilot
* = individual homepage
** = co-pilot, or passenger at time of death
*** = killed on ground by propeller

Female pilots and astronauts and the books which reference them

Go to the Complete Pilot and Astronaut Bibliography (including books that don't cite women)

Person Notes Bibliography
Aboukaia, ? (Mlle.) Japanese pilot who'd been a bicycle racer also..
  • Before Amelia, Eileen F. Lebow, 2002, Brassey's Inc.
  • Agazarian, Monique British pilot.
  • Women of the Air, Judy Lomax, 1986, 1987, Dodd, Mead
  • Allison, Rhea Hurrle [Woltman] One of the Mercury 13.
  • The Mercury 13, Martha Ackmann, 2002, Random House
  • Anatra, Eudocie V. Russian pilot
    Second Russian woman to earn a license, on October 3, 1911.
  • Before Amelia, Eileen F. Lebow, 2002, Brassey's Inc.
  • Anderson, Dorothy Flight instructor. Turned down invitation to test as Mercury astronaut.
  • The Mercury 13, Martha Ackmann, 2002, Random House
  • Anderson, Maia Wife of John Carberry. A pilot.
  • Women of the Air, Judy Lomax, 1986, 1987, Dodd, Mead
  • Auddeffred, Helen American pilot.
  • Before Amelia, Eileen F. Lebow, 2002, Brassey's Inc.
  • Auriol, Jacqueline Rival of Jacqueline Cochran, daughter-in-law of the President of France.
  • Women of the Air, Judy Lomax, 1986, 1987, Dodd, Mead
  • Go to the Complete Pilot and Astronaut Bibliography (including books that don't cite women)

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