Female Pilot Celebrates First Flight as Certified Captain

Women have pursued aviation for decades. However, there is not full agreement regarding the first Iranian female pilot. Some, based on an interview with a women’s journal in 1974, believe it was Effat Tejaratchi, who was born in 1917. She told the journal that she was the first female applicant when the first aviation school, Iranian Aero Club, was founded in 1939.