- Anderson, Clarence E. "Bud"
 - WWII Triple Ace who flew the P-51 Mustang, "Old Crow," while assigned to the 357th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force. - Barnes, Florence (Pancho) (1901-1975) (4)
- Learn about Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, one of the legendary women pioneers in aviation history. Sites include her biography, achievements, and a book about the aviatrix.
- Bird-Walton, Nancy
- Byrd, Richard (1888-1957)@
- Cobb, Jerrie (2)
- Learn about Jerrie Cobb, one of the world's top aviators who was also the first woman to be trained as as astronaut.
- Cochran, Jacqueline (1908-1980) (2)
- Know about Jacqueline Cochran, the American pioneer pilot who broke records all along her distinguished aviation career.
- Coleman, Bessie (1896-1926) (8)
- Learn about Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to hold international pilot's license. Sites include biography, achievements, and more about the aviator popularly known as '"Queen Bess".
- Crossfield, Albert (Scott) (1921-2006) (3)
- Curtiss, Glenn H. (1878-1930) (2)
- Doolittle, Jimmy (1896-1993) (2)
- Earhart, Amelia (1898-1937?) (12)
- Find about Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Sites include her biography, achievements, as well as urban legends surrounding her life and mysterious disappearance during a flight across the Pacific Ocean.
- Fokker, Anthony (3)
- Fossett, Steve (9)
- Hargrave, Lawrence (1850-1915)
- The Australian inventor of the box kite. By linking together four of his kites he demonstrated it was possible to build a stable flying machine.
- Hughes, Howard (1905-1976)@
- Kingsford Smith, Charles (1897-1935) (2)
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906-2001)@
- Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) (11)
- Markham, Beryl (1902-1986) (2)
- Learn about Kenyan aviatrix Beryl Markham, best known for her celebrated memoirs West With the Night.
- McLeod, Gus
- Determined to be the first person to circumnavigate the world pole-to-pole in a single engine plane. Holds the record for his historic flight to the North Pole in April 2000 in an open cockpit plane.
- Mitchell, William "Billy" (1879-1936) (3)
- Montgolfier, Joseph Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques Ètienne (1745-1799)@
- Moody, John
- Ultralight aviation pioneer and air show performer with videos and slides of performances.
- Noonan, Fred
- FAQs, links, and more about the pioneer aviator who was Amelia Earheart's navigator on their fateful last flight.
- O'Hare, Butch (1914-1943)@
- Pearse, Richard (1877-1953)@
- Plane Writing: Quotes from Early Pilots' Biographies
- Authors include Beryl Markham, the Lindberghs, Roald Dahl, Nevil Shute, and lots of lesser known pilots.
- Post, Wiley (1898-1935) (2)
- Quimby, Harriet (3)
- Learn about Harriet Quimby, the first American woman pilot to become a licensed pilot and the first woman to cross the English Channel.
- Richthofen, Manfred von (The Red Baron) (1882-1918)@
- Rickenbacker, Eddie (1890-1973) (5)
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (1900-1944)@
- Enjoy the sites for Antoine de Saint Exupery, the French poet-pilot and his famous work, The Little Prince. Sites feature biography, bibliography, quotes, pictures, and stamps honouring the French writer whose other works include Wind, Sand, and Stars, Southern Mail, Flight to Arras, and The Wisdom of the Sands.
- Santos-Dumont, Alberto (1873-1932) (7)
- Tibbets, Paul@
- Whittle, Frank (1907-1996)@
- Who2 Loop: Female First Flights
- Offers profiles of intrepid females who made "first flights" in air or space during the 20th century.
- Wright Brothers (23)
- Read about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two Americans bicycle makers, who invented and build the first successful aeroplane for human flight. Sites contain biographies, career and research, flight, first flight centennial, museum, photographs, and the cultural impact of the invention of flying machine by the Wright brothers.
- Yeager, Chuck (9)
- Learn about Chuck Yeager, the noted test pilot and Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, who in 1947 became the first pilot to travel faster than sound in level flight and ascent. Sites feature biography, photographs, his exploits in World War II, and retelling of the events leading up to the first supersonic flight.
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