Emily Howell Warner
Emily Howell Warner (October 30, 1939 – July 3, 2020) was an American airline pilot. She the first woman captain of a scheduled US airline. She was born in Denver, Colorado.
In 1973, Warner was the first woman pilot to be hired by a scheduled US airline since Helen Richey was hired as a co-pilot in 1934.[1][2] In 1976 Warner was the first woman to become a US airline captain.[3][4]
Biography
She was honored into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and National Women’s Hall of Fame.[5][6] Her pilot’s uniform is on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.[7]
She is the first woman who has been a member of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).[8]
Warner was a flight school manager in Denver, Colorado. She flew more than 21,000 flight hours and performed more than 3,000 check rides and evaluations over her career.[9]
Warner died in 2020 from problems caused by a fall and Alzheimer's disease in Littleton, Colorado at the age of 80.[10][11]
Emily Howell Warner Media
Stapleton Airport as seen from the air in 1966. This is where Howell Warner took flying lessons and was her base of employment for decades.
Two Convair 580s (here belonging to Aspen Airways) at Stapleton Airport in 1986. This is one of the models of aircraft Emily Howell Warner began flying at Clinton Aviation.
Warner flew Boeing 737-200s for Frontier Airlines such as the one pictured here
The flight deck of a Boeing 737-200.
Warner flew DC-8s for UPS Airlines
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References
- ↑ Brady, Tim. The American Aviation Experience: A History (2000)Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809323715.
- ↑ Douglas, Deborah G.. American Women and Flight Since 1940 (2004)University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813126258.
- ↑ Cochrane, D.. Women in Aviation and Space History, Emily Howell Warner. America by AirSmithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ Borstelmann, Thomas. The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (2011)Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400839704.
- ↑ Dobbin, Ben (5 October 2002). 1st Female Makes Hall of Fame. http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2002/1st-Female-Makes-Hall-of-Fame/id-92b9a722f52eeb2ae1b2e20929df0e2f.
- ↑ Emily Howell WarnerNational Women's Hall of Fame.
- ↑ "Howell-Warner: 1st woman to be hired as a pilot by major U.S. airline". AV8TR Newsletter. 17 January 2014. https://www.aopa.org/Pilot-Resources/Aviation-Resources-for-Youth/AOPA-AV8RS/AV8RS-Newsletter/AV8RS-Articles/2014/February/Emily-Howell-Warner.aspx.
- ↑ Women in Aviation and Space History (in en). airandspace.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ↑ Wise, Rick; Witvliet, Jolanda (June–July 2000). "Emily Warner, The First Female Pilot Member of the Air Line Pilots Association". Air Line Pilot. http://cf.alpa.org/internet/alp/2000/jun00p29.htm.
- ↑ Roberts, Sam. Emily Howell Warner, Who Broke a Sky-High Glass Ceiling, Dies at 80. The New York Times (July 17, 2020). Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ↑ Saddened to hear news of recent passing of Capt. Emily Warner.. IATA at Twitter (6 July 2020). Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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