Glasgow, KY, United States
Willa Brown Chappell (1906-1992). This Glasgow native was the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in the U.S., 1937. That year, she also earned masters degree from Northwestern Univ. She was first African American officer in Civil Air Patrol(1941) & first American woman to hold bo
th a mechanic’s license & commercial pilot’s license (1943). (Reverse) Co-founder of National Airmen’s Association of America, which worked to get African Americans into U.S. Air Force. In 1940, she c
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