Antonina Vasilevna Lebedeva (Russian: Антонина Васильевна Лебедева; 29 March 1916 – 17 July 1943) was one of the few female fighter pilots to have made a shootdown, having shot down a Bf 109 in 1943 before she was killed in action during the Battle of Kursk.

Lebedeva was born in 1916, in the village of Bakunin in the Kuvshinovsky District of the Tver Governorate, Russian Empire.

[1] In early May 1943, Lebedeva was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and on 9 May she was transferred to the 65th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment to fight at the Bryansk front.

During an evening battle on 17 July 1943, while flying a combat mission with 3 other fighters, Lebedeva and her comrades were ambushed by a group of 30 German planes.

[3][1] While the aircraft concerned was initially thought to have belonged to the Normandy-Niemen Regiment (a French unit serving on the Eastern Front), the pilot's items recovered were proven to belong to Lebedeva, including her log book and medical card which bore her name.