The NSW branch of the Australian Women’s Pilots’ Association (AWPA) is celebrating the career of Nancy-Bird Walton on what would have been the pioneer aviatrix’ 100th birthday.
The dinner is being held at Dolton House in Sydney on Friday October 16, a hundred years to the day from Walton’s birth in 1915.
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Walton, who was the youngest Australian women to gain a pilot’s licence, founded the Australian Women’s Pilot’s Association in 1950 and was the AWPA’s first president.
Her achievements were recognised with the naming of Qantas’s first Airbus A380, VH-OQA, in her honour. Walton, the first woman to gain a commercial pilot’s licence in Australia, was declared a national living treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1977.
Walton died on January 13 2009, aged 93.
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Anyone wanting more information about the dinner can email the AWPA at: [email protected]
Surely Sydney’s new airport needs a name, I can’t think of someone more deserving. YNBW anyone?
Dane
says:
Nancy-Bird Walton International Airport has a better ring to it than Badgerys Creek. If Sydney airport is named after one of our aviation pioneers, surely another can’t hurt.
adammudhen
says:Surely Sydney’s new airport needs a name, I can’t think of someone more deserving. YNBW anyone?
Dane
says:Nancy-Bird Walton International Airport has a better ring to it than Badgerys Creek. If Sydney airport is named after one of our aviation pioneers, surely another can’t hurt.
Big Al
says:What a great idea Dane