Amy Johnson – Female pilot.
Daughter of a fish merchant – the world’s most famous female pilot was born in Kingston upon Hull, England in 1903. Amy set off alone on May 5th 1930 aged twenty-six from Croydon on a nineteen day journey to Darwin in a single engined Gypsy Moth plane she called Jason. Making her the first solo female pilot to fly from Britain to Australia. She was the first female ground engineer to be licensed by the Air Ministry and was awarded the C.B.E for her achievements in aviation.