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Tag: All-Female Flight Crew

DCARNG All-Female Flight Crew Commemorates 50 years of Women in Modern Aviation
June 4, 2024 — Fifty years ago, on June 4, 1974, 2nd Lt. Sally Murphy became the first female U.S. Army helicopter pilot to graduate from flight school and receive her wings, reigniting the framework for women to officially serve in aviation. Women’s roles in aviation have continued to grow over the last five decades, and in 1994 a female fighter pilot flew a combat mission for the first time... MORE

CW2 Lauren Bloch and CW3 Joy Byrnes, UH-60 Black Hawk pilots, District of Columbia National Guard, stand for a photograph at Davison Army Airfield, May 21, 2024. D.C. Army National Guard Aviation organized an all-female flight crew to commemorate the first woman to graduate Army flight school and the first female officer to achieve pilot status in June 1974.

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