MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION HISTORY BENCH MARKS
This plaque bearing a likeness of Bessie Coleman is affi xed to the
Paxon School for Advanced Studies in Jacksonville, FL, close to the airfi eld where she was killed in 1928.
America’s fi rst licensed female pilot was Harriet Quimby in 1911. Plaques honoring Quimby are found at landmarks in Michigan, California, Massachusetts and New York, as seen here.
The logo for the Katherine Stinson Middle School
“Skyhawks” depicts her biplane.
Coleman include a bronze plaque at the entrance to the Paxon School for Advanced Studies (which is next to the site of the Jacksonville airfi eld), a road at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and another in Waxachachie, TX.
Katherine Stinson (1891-1977) was the fourth woman in the U.S. to earn her pilot’s license in 1912. In 1915, at San Antonio, TX, Stinson started a fl ight school with her mother, sister and two brothers. Stinson made spectacular exhibition fl ights and she is recognized as the fi rst woman to fl y at night, make a fl ying “loop,” and carry U.S. air mail. She gained adoration in the U.S., Japan and Canada where she fl ew on tour. Stinson’s school closed in 1917 and she did not fl y again. She volunteered to drive an ambulance in Europe during WWI and later had a successful career as an architect in New Mexico. Tributes to Stinson include San Antonio’s Stinson Municipal Airport (KSSF), which is named for her entire family, as well as the Katherine Stinson Middle School (also in San Antonio).
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) might be the most honored
aviatrix in the world. I have seen dozens of tributes to her, including a bronze statue at the Amelia M. Earhart Branch of the North Hollywood Public Library in California, and in her home town of Atchison, KS. Atchison has two Earhart statues and a bridge and an airport in her name.
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Several grammar schools and many bronze plaques exist in almost every state she visited, including one at Diamond Head, HI. Earhart’s name graces dozens of streets, a dam in Massachusetts, a regional park in Miami and at least two forests.
Louise Thaden (1905-1979) worked for Walter Beech at
the Travel Air Corporation in Kansas when she earned her pilot’s license in 1927. Thaden was the fi rst person fl ying a light plane to simultaneously hold altitude, endurance and speed records in 1929. Thaden won the 1929 Women’s Air Derby fl ying a Travel Air. That same year, she and Earhart founded the International Association of Women Pilots (known as the Ninety-Nines). Women were excluded from the Bendix Air Race until 1936, when Thaden entered and won. Tributes include a library bearing her name at the National Staggerwing Museum in Tennessee and Louise M. Thaden Field (KVBT) at the airport in Bentonville, AR.
Jerrie Mock (1925- ) was the fi rst woman to solo around
the world in 1964. She fl ew a Cessna 180, the “Spirit of Columbus,” for 29 days and more than 22,000 miles. Mock created or broke several speed and distance records between 1964 and 1969, as well as her numerous fi rsts while circumnavigating the globe. Tributes to Mock include a street for her at Rickenbacher International Airport in
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