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- Lady Mary Heath Lands a Royal Dutch Airliner at Croydon Airport, 1928 - In 1927 Mary, Lady Heath, became the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to earn a commercial pilot's license. It allowed her to fly passenger aircraft like the Royal Dutch airliner she is seen here landing at London's Croydon Airport. A 1929 crash in Cleveland impaired her health, and Lady Heath died from an apparent blood clot in 1939.
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Lady Mary Heath Lands a Royal Dutch Airliner at Croydon Airport, 1928
In 1927 Mary, Lady Heath, became the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to earn a commercial pilot's license. It allowed her to fly passenger aircraft like the Royal Dutch airliner she is seen here landing at London's Croydon Airport. A 1929 crash in Cleveland impaired her health, and Lady Heath died from an apparent blood clot in 1939.