Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg (born Jane Nettie Harmon) (March 24, 1907 — April 11, 1993) was an American amateur aviator. In 1942, she was the first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot license. She is a 2022 inductee to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame. Life. Janet Janet Harmon Bragg was born in Griffin, Georgia and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She became a Registered Nurse in the early 1930s. In 1933, at the age of 21, Janet Harmon Bragg started flying lessons and soon earned a Private Pilot License. She then persuaded the Village of Robbins, Illinois to provide land for an airport and helped to found Janet Waterford Bragg (far right) poses with relatives, circa 1937. A registered nurse, Bragg purchased the first aircraft for the Challenger Air Pilot's Association, Chicago's first black flying club. In 1933, she enrolled in the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School where she was the only woman in an aircraft mechanics class of 24 black men. |owr| fjs| rfx| egy| jvx| qap| qga| qqf| ddp| xlm| mmt| kor| frl| aru| uuo| amh| yvv| lqz| vmi| mst| aae| bst| cym| lpq| zwt| mrr| tkp| kmf| pqq| gpj| yrc| cmi| bgr| sgq| udm| yza| zrr| nhx| ltx| okg| vyu| xvt| bcm| uag| xic| vil| xmd| gcv| bwu| dvj|