Danica Tomić

Danica Tomić (Serbian Cyrillic: Даница Томић; 25 July 1905 – 16 December 1961) was the first woman pilot in Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia and the first woman with the pilot certification.

[2] In 1928, on the occasion of celebration of 15th anniversary of Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, Tomić performed aerobatic maneuvers as a first woman in Yugoslavia to do so.

[3] For this achievement she received congratulations from the magazine Naša krila (transl.

[3] Her husband was captured by the Germans and detained as a prisoner of war.

He survived and left Yugoslavia following the war and settled in the United States together with Danica.