The Baronesse Raymonde de LaRoche seated at the controls of a Voisin 1909 Type biplane, France, circa late 1909. De Laroche was the first women to receive a pilots license in March of 1910.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!229705!0&amp;term=#focus">Roger B. Whitman Early Aviation Photograph Collection</a>, NASM Acc. No. XXXX-0517.
1909
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/multimedia/detail.cfm?id=2125">http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/multimedia/detail.cfm?id=2125</a>