Kate Board

Her first flying job was with Virgin Balloon Flights, and Virgin subsequently offered her a job flying blimps, for which she trained at Kissimmee, Florida, in the United States.

In 2005 she was flying an American Blimp Corporation A-60+ for Lightship Group, and was one of only about 100 active airship pilots in the United States.

[1] By 2011 Board was working for Airship Ventures who offered "Zeppelin tours of San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles and the Monterey Coast" in their craft Eureka, and she was described as the only female Zeppelin pilot in the world.

[2][3] She had logged more than 5,000 flight hours and was certified by the CAA, LBA and FAA as a commercial airship pilot.

A second woman, American Andrea Deyling, qualified as a Zeppelin pilot that year.