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Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter Since 1995

Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Since 1995

August 29, 1911: Hilda Hewlett became the first English woman to earn a pilot's license. She later became the first woman to teach her child to fly in the same year.

tmb hewlettHilda Beatrice Hewlett (17 February 1864 – 21 August 1943) was an early aviator and aviation entrepreneur.

She was the first British woman to earn a pilot's licence. She founded and ran two related businesses: the first flying school in the United Kingdom, and a successful aircraft manufacturing business which produced more than 800 aeroplanes and employed up to 700 people. She later immigrated to New Zealand. 

(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline of women in aviation)

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