Marvel Crosson

Marvel Crosson (April 27, 1900 – August 19, 1929) was a pioneer aviator, and the first female pilot to earn a commercial license in the Territory of Alaska.

She worked in both California and Alaska and died in a crash during the first Women's Air Derby.

Marvel followed soon afterward and earned her commercial pilot's license there, the first woman in the territory to do so.

[5] She helped her brother transport a monoplane from San Diego to New York for Hubert Wilkins.

A vacant chair represented Crosson at a banquet for the Women's Air Derby in Cleveland, Ohio.