Famous Pilots

• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy'

  The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep

• Cochran, Jacqueline

  The aviator who headed women pilots in World War II

• Coleman, Bessie

  The world's first licensed African-American pilot

• Corrigan, Douglas

  The flier who 'accidentally' crossed the Atlantic

• de Saint Exupéry, Antoine

  Author of The Little Prince

• Doolittle, James Harold

  Leader of the bomber attack on Tokyo in 1942

• Earhart, Amelia

  The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937

• Lubitz, Andreas

  The pilot who crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525

• Markham, Beryl

  The author of the memoir West With the Night

• Powers, Francis Gary

  The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960

See: Index by Occupation