Founder of PWAS, LLC, Patty Wagstaff.

Patty Wagstaff is the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic Champion.

Patty Wagstaff is an aerobatic pilot from the United States. She travelled all over the world as a child. Her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines, and she would travel to Southeast Asia, Australia and Alaska to prepare for her own career as a pilot. 

In 1985, Patty joined the USA aerobatics team, where she stayed until 1996. Since then, she earned many awards. The awards kept on coming, and in 1996, she was the top scoring American pilot at the World Aerobatics Championship. That year also, she won the GAN and Flyers Magazine Reader’s Choice awards as favorite female pilot, as well as the Charlie Hillard trophy.

Patty’s honors did not limit to awards championships, and in 1997, she received her first Hall of Fame induction, being inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame as well as the International Women’s Aviation Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was the recipient of the NAA Paul Tissiander diploma, and she won the Bill Barber award for sportsmanship in 1998. In 2002, she won the Katherine and Marjorie Stinson award, and in 2004, she was elected into what is arguably aviation’s most prestigious Hall of Fame, the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

And now, Patty is more recognized as a six-time member of the US Aerobatic Team, she is the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic champion and one of the few people to win it three times. 

Patty shared about:

• The secrets of aerobatics.
• Becoming a female aerobatics legend.
• Her struggles before becoming a US National Aerobatic Champion.