Memorial
Army Capt. Kimberly N. Hampton,
27, of Easley, S.C.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Aviation Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; killed Jan. 2 when her OH-58 Kiowa observation helicopter was shot down by enemy ground fire in Fallujah, Iraq.
First Woman Pilot Killed In Iraq
First Woman Aviator killed in Iraq laid to rest
1st Lieutenant Tamara L. Archuleta,
23, of Los Lunas, New Mexico assigned to USAF, 41st Rescue Squadron, Moody AFB, Georgia; killed March 23, 2003 when her HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting crashed 18 miles north of Ghazni, Afghanistan. The crash was not related to enemy action. In addition to Tamara, six additional aircrew members killed in the accident.
Dream of Flight Scholarship Honors 1st Lt. Tamara L. Archuleta
Capt. Christel A. Chavez,
27, Aug. 8, 2002; U.S. Air Force. She was co-pilot of the MC-130H transport aircraft, which was destroyed when it crashed in mountains during poor weather on a training exercise in Puerto Rico. She was a graduate of Albuquerque H.S. and the Air Force Academy, Class of '98.
Captain Jennifer J. Odom, 29,
July 23, 1999,U.S. Army; Killed along with her co-pilot and three other crew members when the DeHavilland RC7 reconnaissance plane she was piloting crashed into a mountain in southern Colombia.
The Unquiet Death of Jennifer Odom
Captain Amy Lynn Svoboda,
29, May 29, 1997; Air Force. First female USAF fighter pilot to die in a crash. Her A-10 Thunderbolt plane crashed during a training mission at the Barry Goldwater Air Force Range in Arizona. Capt. Amy Lynn Svoboda's death marked the first fatality of a woman pilot in the Air Force, which at the time had only 13 other women fighter pilots. She was the No. 2 training officer in her squadron and had logged more than 1,400 hours piloting jets. She was part of a training flight with another A-10 when her plane crashed near Gila Bend, AZ.
Capt. Amy Lynn Svoboda (1968-1997)
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/svoboda.html
Lt. Kara Hultgreen,
29, October 25, 1994; US Navy. She was the first woman to qualify in a combat-ready F-14 Tomcat, graduating third in her pilot training class. She was a member of the Black Lions of VF-213 readying to deploy to the Persian Gulf. As she was approaching the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on 25 Oct 1994, her aircraft began losing altitude. Her radar intercept officer ejected successfully. Hultgreen ejected immediately after, but the jet had already rolled. After an exhaustive search, her body and the plane were not recovered. She received full military honors upon her death.
The Navy salvaged the plane and recovered her body, still strapped inside the ejector seat. A four-month investigation found that engine malfunction caused the crash and that almost no pilot could have saved the plane after the left engine stalled.
Kara Spears Hultgreen - Arlington Cemetary
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hultgrn.htm
Lt. Kara Spears "Revlon" Hultgreen (1965 - 1994) - Pioneer
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/hultgreen.html
Lt. Laura Piper,
April 14, 1994: an Air Force Academy graduate, was one of 26 people killed when Air Force fighter jets shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq.
LT Colleen Cain,
Jan. 7, 1982; was the Coast Guard's first female HH-52A pilot. While stationed at AIRSTA Barbers Point, Hawaii, the helicopter she was co-piloting responded to a distress call from a fishing vessel in stormy weather. The helicopter crashed into the side of a mountain in the Wailua Valley of Molokai, Hawaii. Cain. Two other crew members, CDR Buzz Johnson and ASM David Thompson were also killed. She was the First USCG woman killed in the line of duty--helicopter accident on a rescue mission.
Lt Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey,
34, July 13, 1982; US Navy. She was the first woman pilot in the history of the U.S. Navy who, in 1994, earned her gold wings. She and her student were killed in a crash while practicing touch-and-go landings at Middleton Field near Evergreen, Alabama. Their Navy aircraft banked sharply to avoid another plane, lost altitude, and crashed.
Arlington Cemetery Biography on Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Allen Rainey
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/barbaraa.htm
WASP
Jean Ross Howard Phelan, a pioneering female helicopter pilot whose life spanned the era from Lindbergh to the space shuttle, died of sepsis Jan. 29 at George Washington University Medical Center. She was 87.
Jean Ross Howard Phelan Dies at 87; One of First Female Helicopter Pilots