Women air pilots
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Aviatrices
Also see: Women in aeronautics
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Joann Osterud Logbooks
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-02-08
Content Description
The Joann Osterud Logbooks is a collection of seven flight logbooks documenting Osterud's career as a pilot, dating from 1968-1986. The earliest book records Osterud's flights as a student pilot. Flights in the early 1970s include many out of Boeing Field (King County International Airport) in a Cessna 150A. Later logs document her work as a pilot primarily flying at airshows. Planes flown include Piper J-3 Cub and Stephens Akro. Her work for Alaska Airlines from 1975-1978 is...
Dates:
1968-1986
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-12-09
Content Description
The Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph is a small collection consisting of a single photograph depicting of Joann Osterud flying upside-down in her Ultimate Aero 10-300S, July 24, 1991 from Vancouver, B.C. to Vanderhoof, B.C on a record-breaking flight. The photograph is in color and measures 8x10 inches. It is inscribed, "To Clarice and Tom, Thanks! Joann, Vancouver to Vanderhoof, 7/24/91". The people mentioned in the inscription were Clarice Osterud and Tom Hargiss, Joann's...
Dates:
1991 July 24
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Russian Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-4
Abstract
The Russian Aviation Collection documents 20th century Soviet and Russian aviators and aviation accomplishments, including the Soviet Transpolar Flight of 1937 as well as the Douglas World Cruisers of 1924, with photographs, clippings, articles, and photographic reproductions of various textual materials.
Dates:
1924-1983
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Seiler Family Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2024-03-12
Contents of the Collection
The Seiler Family Aviation Collections holds textual, visual, and audiovisual materials from the military and commercial aviation careers of members of the Seiler family. Materials are dated from the 1950s through the 2010s, although the bulk of material fall within the 1980s-1990s. It has been arranged alphabetically by family member with each family member's materials in chronological order. The first series, Gretchen (Seiler) Haskins, is primarily...
Dates:
circa 1950s-2010s; Majority of material found within 1980s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Dorothy (Hester) Stenzel Pilot Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1992-09-26
Abstract
Dorothy (Hester) Stenzel (1910-1991) was born in Ardenwald, Oregon and learned to fly in the late 1920s. Stenzel then gained fame for stunt flying and broke several records through the mid-1930s. The collection contains seven scrapbooks and assorted textual materials and photographs that document Stenzel's career as one of the first female stunt pilots.
Dates:
circa 1928-1991
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1986-12-09-A
Content Description
The Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of two photographs of Women Air Service Pilots at Elgin Air Force Base with the B-29 "Ladybird" before a B-29 demonstration tour in 1944.The first photograph depicts Women Airforce Service Pilots Dora J. Dougherty and Dorothea J. Moorman accepting aircraft papers from a representative of the Boeing Company for the B-29 "Ladybird" at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. Nose art of...
Dates:
June 1944
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jeanette R. (Rogowski) Witzkowski World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2013-11-27
Contents of the Collection
The Jeanette R. (Rogowski) Witzkowski World War II Collection relates to the World War II-era experience of Jeanette Witzkowski, who served as a pilot and air traffic controller during World War II. It includes primarily textual materials and a small amount of photographic prints, with the bulk of the material falling within 1935-1947. Textual materials include Civil Aeronuatics Administration (CAA) air traffic control instructional documents and aircraft clearance forms and...
Dates:
1935-1948,1983; Majority of material found within 1935-1948
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Lawrence, Wendy -- oral history interview, 2017 June 30
File
Interview Summary
Astronaut Wendy Lawrence is interviewed about her military service and spaceflight career during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. She describes key assignments from her U.S. Navy service, such as her time as a helicopter pilot and her time as a physics instructor at the Naval Academy. She then discusses her experiences as a mission specialist with NASA’s Space Shuttle program and shares details about her four spaceflight missions: STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, and STS-114. Topics discussed...
Dates:
2017 June 30
Metz, Iva L. -- oral history interview, 2019 November 1
File
Interview Summary
Iva Metz is interviewed about her life and her secretarial career in the aviation and aerospace industries from the 1940s through the 1980s. She discusses her professional experiences working for the U.S. Navy, the Cessna Aircraft Company, the Boeing Aircraft Company, and North American Aviation. The interview focuses in particular on her time at NASA and her involvement with the space program. Iva also touches on her husband’s (Homer) career in the military and with Boeing on various...
Dates:
2019 November 1