Nancy Brooke Knapp (born 1940) is an American aviator,[1] entrepreneur and Realtor, who set or broke more than 100 world aviation speed records including the fastest speed around the world in a civilian jet aircraft in a Gulfstream III.
Knapp graduated from Winter Haven (Florida) High School in 1958 under her birth name of Nancy Brooke.
Knapp graduated summa cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles.
For this accomplishment, she received the Federal Aviation Award for Extraordinary Service, the Paul Tissandier Diploma from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale[2] and the 1984 Harmon Trophy.
Previously, she founded and operated her own company, Jet Airways, Inc. She received the 2008 Los Angeles Business Journal Community Service Award.