Entries in grey refer to aviation and world events achievements not specific to women.
Entries in white refer to women's achievements.
Birthdates of female pilots/groundcrew, etc. are not given individual entries, but listed in the first entry for each woman.
Reference works are cited by code numbers, identified in the Bibliography.
Amelia Earhart.
Name
Date(s)
Notes
Bibliography
1930
1930
1930
1930
Willa Brown
1930
American.
African-American Willa Brown learns to fly at the Chicago Aeronautical University in 1930. She will then go on to train many black students in her South Side school. These men will go on to become Tuskegee Airmen, and serve during WWII.
Pl-1
1931
1931
1931
1931
Amelia Earhart
February 7, 1931
American.
Amelia Earhart marries George Putnam.
Ge-1
1932
1932
1932
1932
Bessica Raiche
1932
American
Bessica Raiche, divorced for some years, dies at the age of 58 after "she inhaled too much chloroform to regulate pain following surgery." The surgery was for cancer.
Le-1
Hilda Hewlett
1932
English.
Hilda Hewlett flies to New Zealand from London on a KLM airline Oolevaar (Stork), a Fokker FVIIb/3M, becoming the first passenger - male or female - to fly as a through passenger on that route. It takes 11 days
Le-1
Amelia Earhart
May 20, 1932
American.
Amelia Earhart takes off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland in a single engine Lockheed Vega 5b. She arrives in Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland, 14 hours, 56 minutes later.
Cave canem
McL-1 states she took off on May 29, 1932 - however this is incorrect.
Ea-1, McL-1
Amelia Earhart
January 11, 1935
American.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly successfully from Hawaii to the United States mainland.
Ge-1
1936
1936
1936
1936
Amelia Earhart
July 24, 1936
American
Amelia Earhart takes possession of a Lockheed twin-engine, 500-horsepower, ten-passenger Model 10A Electra. This was Earhart's 38th birthday.
