A celebration of the achievements of Katherine Margaret Gill are long overdue. She stamped her mark on British history in 1935 when she became the first deaf pilot in Britain. Not only the first deaf female to reach for the skies and gain a pilot’s licence, but the first of either sex. To do this […]| solentaviatrix
On 8 July 1940 Joy Muntz Davison became the first female Air Transport Auxiliary pilot to die in service. She was a long time friend of Amy Johnson. Amy is sometimes mistakenly believed to have been the first woman pilot to die in the Second World War. Sadly, that fate fell to Joy. It is […]| solentaviatrix