Born in Alabama, Katherine Stinson (1891–1977) could not initially find an instructor willing to train her, but ultimately persuaded Max Lillie of the Wright School to give her lessons. In 1911, after just four hours of training, she was able to fly solo. #EarlyWomenAviators
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Clark overcame the reluctance of Glenn Curtiss to accept her as a student and trained at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. After earning her pilot's license, she joined the Curtiss exhibition team billed as "The Daring Bird-Girl." #EarlyWomenAviators
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In 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. She trained and earned her license at the Moisant Aviation School in New York. In 1912, she became the first woman to cross the English Channel in an airplane.
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In 1912, Bernetta Adams Miller became the fifth woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot’s license. She became the first woman aviator and the first person to demonstrate a monoplane to the U.S. government when she flew a Moisant/Bleriot for the U.S. Army in 1912. #EarlyWomenAviators
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In 1912, Julia Clark became the third woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. Michigan-born Clark (1880–1912) became interested in aviation in 1911, when she attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. #EarlyWomenAviators
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In 1912, at age 21, Stinson was the 4th woman in the U.S. to obtain a pilot’s certification. Called “the Flying School Girl,” she quickly became a star aerobatic performer. She was the first woman to perform an aerial loop and the first to fly U.S. airmail. #EarlyWomenAviators
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Inspired to learn to fly by her sister Katherine, Marjorie Stinson trained at the Wright School in 1914 at the age of 18 & became the 9th woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot’s license. In 1915, she was the only woman flying in the U.S. Aviation Reserve Corps. #EarlyWomenAviators
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It was reported that while at the school, Lillian Atwater caught a seagull in a net while her husband flew a hydroplane. She never earned a pilot’s license, and it remains unknown if she continued to fly after attending the school. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek
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Lillian Janeway Atwater (1890–1937) was the first woman to fly a hydroplane in the United States. In 1911, she began hydroplane pilot training with her husband William Atwater at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek
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Marjorie Stinson (1895-1975) also trained cadets from the Royal Canadian Flying Corps for service in World War I and is credited with training over one hundred pilots during the war. #EarlyWomenAviators
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Matilde Moisant was born in Indiana and learned to fly at her brother’s Moisant Aviation School. Instructed along with her friend Harriet Quimby, Moisant earned her pilot’s license in 1911. She was the second licensed woman aviator in the U.S. at that time. #EarlyWomenAviators
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