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Trishie McCaslin - Women in Aviation International Contact information may be available to logged in members.

Trish Beckman - Women in Aviation International Trish Beckman retired from the United States Navy after serving 28 years. She is the first woman to qualify as a crewmember in the F-15E program and the first American woman to qualify as a crewmember in the F.A-18D. As a Naval Flight Officer, she flew in 67 types of aircraft.

Emily Howell Warner - Women in Aviation International Emily Howell Warner was the first permanent female pilot for a scheduled U.S. passenger airline. She took her first airplane ride when she was 17, and immediately decided on aviation as a career. She first sought a job at Frontier Airlines in 1968, and renewed her application frequently.

Nicole Malachowski - Women in Aviation International Nicole Malachowski's interest in aviation began at a central California air show in 1979, when she was only five years old. She joined the Civil Air Patrol and took her first flying lesson at age 12. Nicole attended the US Air Force Academy, from which she was commissioned in 1996.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) - Women in Aviation International More than 1,000 WASP pilots flew over 70 million miles and delivered 12,650 airplanes across the country during their time of operation. The WASP program was suspended in December 1944. List of WASP gravesites provided by the WASP Archive at Texas Woman's University.

Fran Bera - Women in Aviation International Unbeknownst to her parents in late 1940, Fran Bera began skipping high school classes to take flying lessons, and soloed at age 16. She earned her commercial certificate and flight instructor ratings, became a free fall parachutist, and ferried surplus aircraft after World War II.

Jerrie Cobb - Women in Aviation International Jerrie Cobb, a native of Oklahoma, learned to fly at age 12. She worked at small county airports after school and weekends to gain flying experience and learn aircraft mechanics. At age 18, she became a professional pilot whose jobs included pipeline patrol flying, charter flying, flight instruction, crop dusting and ground school instruction.

Alice du Pont Mills - Women in Aviation International Alice du Pont Mills received her pilot's license in 1929 at the age of 18. The following year, she received her instrument rating, and logged numerous hours shuttling her father between Cape Cod and Wilmington.

Anne Bridge Baddour - Women in Aviation International In this job from 1977 to 1997, she flew standard civilian aircraft, in the cabin of which had been installed new technology projects for communications, radar, navigation, and lasers.

Jacqueline Cochran - Women in Aviation International Jacqueline Cochran is one of the most outstanding women in 20th century aviation. During World War II, she recruited women to fly for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), and then returned to the United States to lead the Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) and later became the director of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).