In 1972, trailblazing British pilot Yvonne Pope Sintes took off for Glasgow with Dan Air as the UK’s first female commercial airline captain. Over 54 years later, carriers are campaigning for women to ...

Nia Gilliam proclaimed she’d never fly again after 9/11. The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, felt normal. The Atlantic Coast Airlines plane had no engine problems or mechanical issues. Passengers were ...

When Sony Rana got her pilot's license in 1988, she became the first Nepali woman to sit in the cockpit. Now, she has become the first Nepali woman to be certified to fly jets after she got her Boeing ...

Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.

This piece is part of our first-annual Health Care Heroes series, where we spotlight people doing amazing things in the health care and medical fields. Read the rest of the stories here. THE WOMAN ...

Twenty-one-year-old Delia Dorey is the youngest female hot air balloon pilot in Canada, but she didn't always see that for ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (WABC) -- A group of female pilots are planning to make history this weekend while honoring a fallen legend. The Navy will perform its first ever, all-female flyover Saturday ...

In 1929, 20 female pilots, including Amelia Earhart, set off to fly from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio, in the first Women’s Air Derby. Nearly 100 years later, female pilots from across ...

MORAINE — Female pilots who flew in vintage airplanes from around the country crowded the Moraine Airpark this weekend for the second annual Lady Taildraggers fly-in event. Andy Heins of Dayton, an ...