Six days after, she damaged her aircraft while landing downwind at Brisbane airport and flew to Sydney with Captain Frank Follett while her plane was repaired. Flying G-AAAH Jason, she left Croydon Airport, Surrey, on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May, 11,000 miles (18,000 km) later. Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. She purchased a secondhand de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH and named it Jason after her father's business trade mark. Johnson obtained the funds for her first aircraft from her father, who was always one of her strongest supporters, and Lord Wakefield. Aviation Īmy Johnson when flying solo from England to Australia Slingsby helped found Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank and during the 1930s she was an early member and trainee.
Johnson was a friend and collaborator of Fred Slingsby whose Yorkshire based company, Slingsby Aviation of Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire, became the UK's most famous glider manufacturer. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's "C" licence. 1979, on 6 July 1929, both at the London Aeroplane Club under the tutelage of Captain Valentine Baker. 8662, on 28 January 1929, and a pilot's "A" licence, No. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining an aviator's certificate, No. She then worked in London as secretary to a solicitor, William Charles Crocker. Johnson was educated at Boulevard Municipal Secondary School (later Kingston High School) and the University of Sheffield, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. She was the eldest of three sisters, the next in age being Irene who was a year younger. The cause of her death has been a subject of discussion over many years.īorn in 1903 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Amy Johnson was the daughter of Amy Hodge, granddaughter of William Hodge, a Mayor of Hull, and John William Johnson whose family were fish merchants in the firm of Andrew Johnson, Knudtzon and Company. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight. Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.įlying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s.
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