Matilde Josephine Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964) was an American pioneer aviator, the second woman in the United States to obtain a pilot's license.

[8] In September 1911, she flew in the air show at Nassau Boulevard airfield in Garden City, New York and, while competing against Hélène Dutrieu, Moisant broke the women's altitude world record and won the Rodman-Wanamaker trophy by flying to 1,200 feet (370 m).

[8] Moisant stopped flying on April 14, 1912, in Wichita Falls, Texas when her plane crashed[8] (the same day that the Titanic struck an iceberg and only two days before her friend, Harriet Quimby, became the first woman to pilot an aircraft across the English Channel).

[14] She spent several years dividing her time between the U.S. and the family plantation in El Salvador, before returning to the Los Angeles area.

[15] Matilde Moisant died in 1964 in Glendale, California,[16] aged 85, and was interred in the Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.