"according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s first female combat pilot. "

[southwestforests]

Hey Y'all; Don't know how much interest there is here in this kind of thing, but here it is.

Born on 21 March 1913, Sabiha Gökçen enrolled in the Military Aviation Academy in Eskisehir in 1936. After graduating, she flew fighter and bomber planes becoming the first Turkish female aviator and according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s first female combat pilot. Her well-packet career of 8000 flying hours included thirty-two hours spent in combat flights. He also flew twenty-two different types of aircraft. A XIX here.

Pretty dapper here. Being one of the adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of Turkey should had helped her, but anyway….

https://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/breguet-xix-la-pasion-turca/

 

[southwestforests]

And playing in Google has discovered, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport.

https://www.sabihagokcen.aero/homepage

which has,

https://www.sabihagokcen.aero/sabiha-gokcen-kimdir.html

I don't read Turkish, but, whoa, she lived until 2001.

also found:
https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2023/02/turkeys-sabiha-gokcen-first-female-combat-pilot/

Born on 22 March 1913 in Bursa, northwest Turkey, Gökçen and her siblings faced early hardships when their parents died. However, the young orphan’s life changed dramatically in 1925, when she met the Turkish Republic’s founder and first President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, during his official visit to Bursa.

At the tender age of 12, the independently-minded Gökçen asked Atatürk for assistance in attending boarding school. Impressed with her ambition and perseverance, Atatürk decided to adopt her, giving her the surname of Gökçen in 1934, after Turkey’s Surname Law was introduced.

Interestingly, “Gök” means “sky” in Turkish and “Gökçen” means “belonging or relating to the sky”. It seems that Gökçen was destined to fly.