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Amy was born in 1903 at 154 St. George's Road, Kingston-upon-Hull.[1] She is the daughter of John Johnson and his wife Amy Hodge. In 1911, she was living with her parents and younger sister Irene at Sculcoates in Hull, Yorkshire, England.[2]
Amy Johnson was the first woman in the UK to become an Air Ministry qualified ground engineer in 1929.
At 26, Amy became the first woman to fly on her own from Britain to Australia, having had less than a year’s flying experience. She completed the journey at Darwin Airport on 24 May, 1930, 19 days after leaving Croydon Airport in England. Papers released by the National Archives (England) to mark the 75th anniversary of the journey also show she carried an automatic pistol with her but did not have a radio. Johnson completed a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Sheffield.[3]
She was awarded the title of Commander of the British Empire in 1930.
In 1931 she became the first pilot to fly from London to Moscow in one day.
In 1932 she flew solo from London to Cape Town in South Africa, breaking her husband's previous record by 11 hours.
In 1936 she regained her London to Cape Town record. This was her last long-distance flight.
Amy Johnson married James A Mollison in 1932 and their marriage was registered in St. George Hanover Square, London, England [4] (Jim was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 19 Apr 1905). They were divorced in 1938.
She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary on 25 May 1940. She was a Pilot First Officer. She crashed an air transport auxiliary plane into the Thames Estuary in 1941. Her body was never recovered.
In 2016, a bronze statue of Amy Johnson was unveiled in Herne Bay, close to where she crashed.
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