Dora Dougherty Strother
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Dora Jean Dougherty Strother was an American aviator best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer wit
Jean Dougherty Strother, with E.J. Ducayet (right) and R.C. Buyers (left)
The Civilian Pilot Training Program was a flight training program sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear i
Dora Dougherty Strother
…serving as President of the organization from 1979 to 1981, and a member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1940, Strother earned her pilot certificate via the Civilian Pilot Training Program, sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. She then became the sixth woman in the United States to earn an airline transport pilot license. The…
Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland