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First Propjet Captains in the World

 06Jun76

DHC-6

Emily Warner

Frontier Airlines

 Jan79

CV-580

Barbara Wiley

Republic Airlines

 03Mar79

SD-330

Sharyn Emminger

Hawaiian Airlines

07Jun79

YS-11

Cheryl Faye Peters

Piedmont Airlines

First Jet Captain in the World

 10May82

B737

Cheryl Faye Peters

Piedmont Airlines

First Supersonic Commerical Pilot in the World

25Mar93

Concorde

Barbara Harmer

British Airways

First Flight in the World with more than one Female Crewmember

CMA - Compagnia Mexicana de Aviacion.

20Nov76

B727-200

First Officer - Elena Folch Serra
Flight Engineer - Concepcion Barnard Ruiz

First Father/Daughter Airline Pilots (not flying together)

Captain Denise Blankinship (Piedmont Airlines)
and Captain Clyde Blankinship (Eastern Airlines)
Denise and her father were also First Captain Father/Daughter pilots

First Father/Daughter Airline Pilots (flying together)

Captain Jerry Brenny and Second Officer Suzie Kelly (17Dec88 on DC-10)

First Mother/Son Airline Pilots

Sep98 - Captain Joy Klopfer and First Officer Glenn Klopfer (United)
29Oct99 - First flight together (B767)

Youngest Pilot Hired

Duana Robinson was the youngest female to be hired for a major US airline when she was 21 years of age. She was hired by Texas International on 13Feb78 to fly the DC-9.

Youngest Jet Captains in the World

Linda Pauwels (Southern Air Transport) on an B707 at the age of 25

Lori Legat Griffith (Piedmont Airlines) on an F-28 at the age of 26 yrs. 3 months

Nivedita Bhasin (Indian Airlines) on a B737 at the age of 26 yrs. 6 months

Youngest Whale (B747) Captain

Jamile Costa (Atlas Air) at the age of 30

First wife/husband Crewmembers

CA Jim Price and FO Penny Price - FedEx, B727, 1986

Yasmin Rahman and Ishfaq Rahman (Biman Bangladesh)

Lucy and Hedley Tardrew (Virgin Atlantic Airways): First Wide-body
July, 1996; 747-200; LHR-SFO-LHR

First Sister Airline Pilots

Jan Ramos (Southern Air Transport) and Vicki Ramos (Gulf Air)

These statistics have been compiled by ISA+21 and are correct to the best
of our knowledge. ISA+21 accepts no responsibility for data that may be in error.

Updated 03/12/03