Ellen Church

✶September 22, 1904

†August 22, 1965

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About their life

Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant. A trained nurse and pilot, Church wanted to pilot commercial aircraft, but those jobs were not open to women. Still wanting to fly, Church successfully worked to convince Boeing Air Transport that using nurses as flight-stewardesses would increase safety and help convince passengers that flying was safe. Their first flight took off on May 15, 1930.

American pilot, flight attendant and nurse (1904–1965)

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Biography from the article Ellen Church on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.