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04/27/2023
World Pilot's Day is celebrated each year on April 26 and can trace its origins back to 1912 when a young Turkish pilot named Fesa Evrensev took to the skies for the first time.
In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first Black licensed pilot. When she developed an interest in flying, women and people of color had no flight training opportunities in the US.
Coleman taught herself French and moved to Paris where she earned her pilot's license in 1921.
In September of 1922, upon returning to the United States with the ultimate goal of establishing a flying school for African Americans, Coleman made her first appearance at an American airshow honoring veterans of the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment of the First World War. Held at Curtiss Field on Long Island and sponsored by Robert Abbott and The Chicago Defender, the airshow billed Coleman as ‘’the world’s greatest woman flier.”
Bessie Coleman was tragically killed on April 30, 1926 during a rehearsal for an aerial show when the airplane she was in unexpectedly went into a dive and then a spin, subsequently throwing Coleman from the airplane at 2,000 feet. Upon examination of the aircraft, it was later discovered that a wrench used to maintain the engine had jammed the controls of the airplane. Bessie was 34 years old.
https://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/history/women-in-aviation/bessie-coleman.html
