Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, has a display honoring Women in Aviation.

Unfortunately, it is missing one major contributor. Bessie Coleman was the first female African-Amercan pilot, and first female Native American pilot in the U.S. She held an International Pilot license a full year before Amelia Earheart started flight training. To go through Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, one would think that Amelia was the first in flight. She has a display case and a statue honoring females in aviation. 

Bessie Coleman had to get her license in Paris in 1921, as the U.S. would not grant an African-American woman the license to fly. Earhart was able to achieve license AND fame almost overnight. Bessie, like Amelia, died as a pilot. She died after falling 500ft from the cockpit during a mechanical malfunction. Unlike Amelia Earheart, Bessie's name is nowhere to be found in the rich, mainstream history of women in aviation. 

It is time to right this injustice. Include Bessie Coleman, the aviatrix who rightfully belongs as the first in fight.