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Niloofar Rahmani
Niloofar Rahmani (, born 1992) is the first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator in Afghanistan's history and the first female pilot in the Afghan Air Force since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Though her family received death threats, she persevered to complete her training and won the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award in 2015.
Life and career.
Rahmani was born in Afghanistan in 1992. Since she was a child, she had a dream of becoming a pilot and
Bahamasair.
- The Afghan Air Force starts training women pilots again. Sourya Saleh and Masooma Hussaini are trained as helicopter pilots. Niloofar Rahmani is trained as a fixed-wing military pilot, the first Afghan woman in the military to fly planes.
- Sakhile Nyoni-Reiling becomes the first woman General Manager of government-owned Air Botswana.
- Czarena Hashim becomes the first woman airline captain in both Royal Brunei Airlines and Southeast Asia.
- becomes a Mig-29 fighter pilot in the Polish Air Force.