Marjorie Stinson

[1][2][3][4] She trained at the Wright Flying School, and earned her Fédération Aéronautique Internationale license in 1914, becoming the ninth woman in the U.S. to do so.

After it closed, Marjorie returned to exhibition flying and worked at the Department of the Navy, retiring in 1945.

[5][6] Following in the footsteps of her sister, Katherine, Marjorie Stinson learned to fly in June 1914 at the Wright School in Dayton.

[7] After being unsuccessful in starting an airmail route in Texas, she joined the family flight school at the Stinson Municipal Airport, where she was an instructor like her sister.

In 1916 the Royal Canadian Flying Corps began sending their cadets to the Stinson School for their training, where she was referred to as "The Flying Schoolmarm" and her students as "The Texas Escadrille"[1][2][3][8] By war's end, hundreds of military pilots had trained at the family's school.