- Gidsken Jakobsen
Gidsken Jakobsen (
August 1 1908 - 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer.She was among the first Norwegians who tried to establish commercial
aviation in Norway, and in 1932 she established her own airline, making her the first female leader of aScandinavia n airline. When she registered her first airplane inOslo (1939), she became the first to fly from Northern Norway to the capitol during winter.Jakobsen was the second Norwegian
woman who got a pilot's licence, at the age of 20. She achieved the highest rank of the 10 students attending the course.Norwegian Air Shuttle dedicated one of theirBoeing 737 aircraft, LN-KKG to Jakobsen, and her portrait is on the planesvertical stabilizer .See also
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Aviation in Norway External links
* [http://www.endringsagentene.com/gidsken/index.html Webpage about Gidsken Jakobsen] (in Norwegian)
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