MIAMI – Today in Aviation, the first commercial flight ever recorded in US history with an all-women cockpit crew took place in 1984.
It was a historic day for both US commercial aviation and women, as two ladies set off to break a sky-high (hypothetical) glass ceiling, being the first all-female flight deck to pilot a Frontier Airlines (F9) Boeing 737-200.
The Boeing 737-200 were short- to medium-range, narrow-body, twin-engine aircraft. The first flight of the -200 took place on August 8, 1967. It had a two-person flying crew and a maximum capacity of 136 passengers.
Mrs. Emily Howell Warner and Mrs. Barbara Cook flew their Boeing 737 from Denver, Colorado to Lexington, Kentucky. Clearly, this was an amazing feat considering there weren’t even that many female aviators yet at the time.