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Welcome to the Women Aviators Wiki!

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• To view a list of existing pages, go here.
• Or use the Search Box to your left to find a specific aviator, organization, etc.
• For creating and writing pages, or editing help, start here.
• As of February 9, 2010 the number of articles in the Women Aviators Wiki is 2,088.

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The goal of the Women Aviators Wiki is to share all of the inspiring and amazing stories of over a century of women's contributions in aviation. We Need Your Help!

Please contribute material to this wiki!

Every page can be edited by you, and of course you can add pages.

Only six percent of all pilots are women. By definition, therefore, any woman with a pilot's license is unique, a role model, and her story deserves to be told!

From the pioneers of flight in the early 1900s, to those who flew for glory during the days of barnstorming after WWI, to the slightly over one thousand women who served as WASP during World War II, to those who have served in the military since then, to the private pilots who earn their licenses just for the fun of it... their stories are collected together here.

We want to gather their stories of courage and determination with the hope that it will inspire you to follow your own dreams. This wiki is meant to be a community project to preserve and honor those women who have and do contribute to aviation in all its forms.

We ask that you, as a contributor, endeavor to be fair, balanced and as factual as possible with the information that you submit. This is not meant to be a forum to air personal grievances or gossip, but to inform, inspire and entertain, and to preserve the rich tapestry of lives well lived.

This site has been developed and is maintained as a part of the Women Fly Project, which has been bringing quality graphics and apparel to men and women for over 15 years.

During that time, the Project has been asked many times, "Why don't you do something on this pilot, or that pilot?" The reason is simple: money and time. Many women have great stories, but it is impossible to create artwork for each and every one of them.

With that in mind, we hope to share the information and resources that we have been fortunate enough to gather over those years, and hope that you will do the same. The wiki format is one of the great technologies developed for the web, and it allows a project like this to be put forth for the benefit and input of many contributors.

Please browse, and leave with your dreams and hopes and imaginations stirred. And please feel free to share a story of your own.

This compilation can never be the work of only a few, it takes a community to fill in the details of lives that may have escaped the public's attention. In the great tradition of folk history, there are experiences that should be shared, and this site intends to honor that tradition.

Good luck, and blue skies!