MAY 2, 1977 - TODAY IN AVIATION HISTORY

At Williams AFB, Arizona, on May 2, 1977, First Lieutenant Christine E. Schott, USAF, became the first woman in the Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training Program to solo in a Northrop T-38A Talon. She was in Class 77-08, which started on September 19, 1976. Captain Christine E. Schott would go on to become the first woman in the Air Force to qualify and fly the C-9A Nightingale medical transport plane.

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