Best Female ғɪɢʜᴛer Pilot: Top 10 Female ғɪɢʜᴛer Pilots in the World

Being a ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot is a difficult job. High standards for mental, physical, and intellectual acuity must be met. Not all women who join the military as a career feel comfortable working in a cramped cockpit under harsh conditions. Most nations did not permit female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilots until the 1990s, and several nations never had one at all.

Niloofar Rahmani
She is both the first female pilot in the Afghan Air Force and the first female fixed-wing aviator in Aғɢʜᴀɴɪsᴛᴀɴ’s history. A contentious story comes after the successful one. The majority of Taliban terrorists disapprove of her accomplishment and wish to harm her. Due to Afghan traditions and laws prohibiting women from serving in the military, some of her relatives even vowed to ᴋɪʟʟ her. She started her US Air Force C-130 training in 2015 and finished it in December 2016. In April 2018, the American government awarded her asylum.

Nicola Baumann
In 2007, Nicola Baumann, who was born on March 10th, 1985, became the second female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot in German Air Force history. She flew Tornados and Euroғɪɢʜᴛer Typhoons for the 322nd Squadron in Bavaria. She joined the 459th Flying Squadron at ENJJPT in 2012 as an instructor pilot. In 2015, she also finished her training to fly the Euroғɪɢʜᴛer Typhoon.

Katie Higgins
In September 2014, Marine Corps Captain Katie Higgins made history when she joined the Blue Angels team as the first female pilot. The renowned U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron is called the Blue Angels. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Annapolis in 2008, then continued on to Georgetown University to earn a Master’s degree in International Security before reporting to Naval Air Station Pensacola for aviation training. She was a married mother of two children, so her accomplishment in flight records was incredible.

Yu Xu
Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Cʜɪɴᴀ, in 1986. The Chengdu J-10 ғɪɢʜᴛer jet, produced in Cʜɪɴᴀ, was flown by Yu Xu, the first licensed Chinese wOᴍᴀɴ. She enlisted in the military in 2005 and completed her studies at the PLA Air Force Aviation University in 2009. The August 1st aerobatics team included Yu Xu. Sadly, on November 12, 2016, the potential pilot ᴘᴀssᴇᴅ ᴀᴡᴀʏ during an aerobatic training session. When her plane crashed not far from Tangshan, in the province of Hebei, she perished in a failed parachute jump.

Carey Lohrenz
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1968. Carey Lohrenz is the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot in the U.S. Navy. In 1990, she earned her degree from the University of Wisconsin. Lohrenz completed the Naval Air Station Pensacola Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1991. She receives advanced jet training in the same year at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas. At the Naval Air Station Miramar in California, she was given follow-up orders to the F-14 Fleet Replacement Squadron, ғɪɢʜᴛer Squadron 124 (VF-124).

Mariam Al-Mansouri
Born in Abu Dhabi in 1979. She is the Uɴɪᴛᴇᴅ Aʀᴀʙ Eᴍɪʀᴀᴛᴇs Air Force’s first female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot. She enlists in the Uɴɪᴛᴇᴅ Aʀᴀʙ Eᴍɪʀᴀᴛᴇs Air Force in 2007 and enrolls at the Khalifa bin-Zayed Air College, where she excels as a pilot. She establishes herself as the top pilot in the Arab nation, making aviation history. In 2014, she commands UAE Air Force ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋs against ISIS over Sʏʀɪᴀ while piloting an F-16 ғɪɢʜᴛing Falcon Block 60. The successful mission turned into a motivational tale for Arab female teenagers who had a desire of becoming a pilot.

Patricia Yapp
Declared to be the first female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot from Asia to fly the MiG-29. Patricia Yapp was the RMAF’s first-ever female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot. She was raised in East Mᴀʟᴀʏsɪᴀ’s Sabah region, in the city of Sandakan. Her diploma in aeronautical engineering from Universiti Teknologi Mᴀʟᴀʏsɪᴀ was earned in 2000. She decided to become a ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot after completing her flight school in 2002, and she spent four years flying the Aermacchi MB-339. After that, she joined the No. 17/19 Squadron in Kuantan, which flies the MiG-29N Fulcrum, as an operational and tactical lead pilot.

Captain Kim Campbell
On June 6, 1975, Captain Campbell was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States. Campbell, a graduate of the Air Force Academy, was one of just 50 female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilots in the USAF in 2003. She left the United States Air Force Academy in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree. During the Iʀᴀǫ War, Captain Kim Campbell flew an A-10 with the 75th Expeditionary ғɪɢʜᴛer Squadron. On April 7, 2003, as she was conducting a combat mission in support of American ground forces above Baghdad, her A-10 aircraft was tragically ʜɪᴛ by AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery). She brings the ᴅᴀᴍᴀɢᴇd A-10 to the base with tenacity and exceptional flying abilities.

Jammie Jamieson
The $150 million F-22 Raptor, a fifth-generation sᴛᴇᴀʟth tactical ғɪɢʜᴛer aircraft, is not available to all ғɪɢʜᴛer pilots. The first operational female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilot to fly the better F-22, however, was Jammie Jamieson. She was born in Tacoma, and from 1982 until 1996, when she departed for the Air Force Academy, she resided in Prosser. Jamieson graduated from the F-15C Basic Course at Tyndall Air Force Base and gained her commission from the Air Force Academy in 2000. In 2002, she earned a master’s degree from Harvard University in public policy in national security and political economy. In 2008, she finished the F-22A Transition Qualification Course at Tyndall after spending three years flying the F-15C in Alaska.

Lt. Col Christine Mau
Lt. Col. Christine Mau is ranked one of the best female ғɪɢʜᴛer pilots. Only 86 other pilots in the whole U.S. Air Force were certified to fly the F-35A at the moment Lt. Col. Mau took the controls for the first time. She created history by becoming the first female pilot of the F-35A and by accomplishing yet another outstanding feat for the US Air Force. She reportedly took part in the first all-female combat mission in Aғɢʜᴀɴɪsᴛᴀɴ in 2011. She started an F-15E Strike Eagle combat operation against militants in Aғɢʜᴀɴɪsᴛᴀɴ’s Kunar Valley along with the all-female maintenance and planning team.