page_title: List of women aviators
section_title: S
hierarchical_section_title: List of women aviators / Individuals / S
caption_attribution_description: English: Blanche Stuart Scott in her biplane
context_page_description: This is a list of notable women aviators – women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and sponsors. It also includes a list of organizations of women aviators.
context_section_description: Nicola Scaife, Australian hot-air balloonist; winner of the FAI Women's Championship in 2014 and 2016
  Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, aeronautical engineer who became a Luftwaffe test pilot during WWII
  Blanche Scott (1885–1970), possibly the first American women to fly solo (see Bessie Raiche)
  Sheila Scott, first person to fly over the North Pole in a light aircraft
  Tammie Jo Shults (born around 1962), one of the first US Navy fighter pilots and captain of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
  Betty Skelton, the fastest woman on Earth
  Elinor Smith (1911–2010), "Flying Flapper of Freeport" who was, at age sixteen, the youngest licensed pilot in the world
  Eula Pearl Carter Scott (1915–2005) of Chickasaw Nation became the youngest pilot to solo at 13 in her Curtiss Robin OX-5 the U.S. on September 12, 1929. She had approximately one year instruction to fly by family friend Wiley Post. Wiley Post also found the Curtiss Robin for George Carter (Father) to buy for Pearl.
  Ida Van Smith, educator who was the first African-American woman in the International Forest of Friendship
  Neta Snook, first woman to run an aviation business; taught Amelia Earhart how to fly
  Winifred Spooner (1900–1933), British aviator; most outstanding female aviator of 1929
  Katherine Stinson, "Flying Schoolgirl" who was the first woman to loop the loop; sister of Marjorie Stinson
  Marjorie Stinson, American exhibition pilot and instructor and the first female airmail pilot in the United States; sister of Katherine Stinson
  Marina Știrbei (1912–2001), Romanian aviator who founded the women's White Squadron in World War II
  Antonie Strassmann (1901–1952), German an aerobatic aviator (emigrated to the US in 2932), who flew a Zeppelin from Germany to Pernambuco, Brazil in 1932. She performed aerobatic flights, including at the 1930 National Air Races in Chicago, represented and consulted with aviation companies, and gave interviews to the press.
caption: Blanche Scott, the "Tomboy of the Air"
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