Evelyn Bryan Johnson nicknamed “Mama Bird”, was born in Corbin, Kentucky

Corbin, Kentucky

- Economy :Originally formed by L&N Railroad, rail transport was the backbone of the local economy in the first half of the twentieth century. While the railroad continues to play an important role, the decline of the rail industry in the latter half of the twentieth century, as well as the loss...

, United States

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. She is the female pilot with the most number of flying hours in the world. She is a Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a founding member of the Morristown, TN Civil Air Patrol squadron.

Johnson, who learned to fly in 1944, has currently logged in 57,635.4 flying hours, and is the oldest flight instructor in the world. She has trained more pilots, given more FAA

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 exams than any other pilot, and is named in the Guinness Book of World Records

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. Johnson is an inductee of the Women in Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame, the Tennessee

Tennessee

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 and Kentucky

Kentucky

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 aviation halls of fame and others. She was awarded a bronze Carnegie Medal for rescuing a helicopter pilot after he crashed.

On July 21, 2007, Johnson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

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, alongside astronaut Sally Ride

Sally Ride

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 and adventurer Steve Fossett

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, among others. The induction was her sixth such honor.

At age 101, Johnson continues to serve as the Manager of Morristown, Tennessee

Morristown, Tennessee

Morristown is a city in, and the county seat of, Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 29,137 at the 2010 United States Census. It is the principal city of the Morristown, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Grainger, Hamblen and Jefferson counties...

's Moore-Murrell Airport

Moore-Murrell Airport

Moore-Murrell Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Morristown, a city in Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. It was opened in 1953...

. A car crash on September 10, 2006, forced doctors to amputate her leg.