Who was the first women to fly abroad?
1998: Dr Kalpans Chawla becomes the first Indian-born woman to fly to space, as part of a NASA team. 1999: Flying Officer Gunjan Saxena, who was among the first women pilots in the IAF, becomes the first woman to fly in a Combat Zone when she takes part in air operations during the Kargil war. I dont know if this is the answer you want.But my test samples provided this. 1932: Urmila K Parikh becomes the first woman to get a pilot’s licence when she is given an ‘A’ licence by the Aero Club of India and Burma. 1951: Prem Mathur becomes the first woman commercial pilot. She flies planes owned by Deccan Airways. 1956: Durba Banerjee is inducted as the first woman pilot of Indian Airlines. 1985: Captain Saudamini Deshmukh commands the first all-women crew flight on an Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship F-27 on the Calcutta-Silchar route. She also commands the first Boeing all-women crew flight on September 1989 on the Mumbai-Goa sector. Capt Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines at 26 becomes t