Women in Aviation

Women in Aviation International (WAI) has announced the launch of a new app, which will correspond with the organization’s sixth annual Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD). The free Aviation for Girls App will offer content such as career videos, virtual museum tours, scholarship information, hands-on activities, book readings and digital issues of Aviation for Girls […]

Women in Aviation International (WAI) hosted nearly 4,500 attendees and 180 exhibitors at its 31st annual conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, last week. Representatives were present from 31 countries including Nigeria, Canada, Ghana, Australia and Iceland. In addition to speakers and professional development and education seminars, the conference featured Girls in Aviation Day Orlando, […]

President and CEO of Women in Aviation International (WAI) Dr. Peggy Chabrian announced at AirVenture 2019 that she will be retiring from the position as of April 2020. Chabrian has served as president of WAI since its formal establishment as a non-profit organization in 1994. She also launched the annual WAI conferences, the first of […]

Getting Together With Some Friends… WAI convened in the beautiful Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. “I’m tired of being a minority, and this makes me feellike I’m not,” says Christine Poelma, a flight instructor from Louisville,Ky., carrying her tow-headed toddler Sophie in her arms. Poelma is checking outthe exhibits in the crowded hall at last […]

Current predictions indicate that within the next few years there will be a pilot and maintenance technician shortage that will impact the aviation industry in gigantic proportions. With fewer candidates for these jobs coming from the armed forces, the aviation industry – including the military – has come to view the female population as a […]

Be sure to check out our collection of images from WAI 2000. “Woman Power In Action!” WAI Rides High On Good Economic Times, Pilot Shortage Aspassengers disembarked from a Continental Express Embraer 145 regional jet atMemphis International last Wednesday, a young woman stuck her head into thecockpit to ask, “Are you all going to the […]

Look for more images, plus a special report, on AVweb for March 16. Aerobatics star Patty Wagstaff signs copies of NASA’s new poster promoting women in aviation and aerospace careers, unveiled at WAI 2000. Also signing posters was NASA astronaut Eileen Collins (seated) and Mary Feik (far left), a member of the WAI Pioneer Hall […]