Pauline Alice Bennett, pilot

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Pauline (Susie) Alice Bennett was born in 1906 to Ida and Dr. James Freeborn Bennett. She attended St. Mary’s School in Blenheim.

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Pauline Bennett, pilot. Image supplied by author

Flying was a family passion with Pauline gaining her Commercial Pilot’s licence and taking her first flight with a passenger in 1930. She was the first woman to gain this licence with aero club training in New Zealand.

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Pauline Bennet, with fellow pilots. Image supplied by author

She often took passengers on sightseeing flights as well as attending air pageants all over the country.

Her brother was also a pilot with the RAF.

She married Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Knocker in Calcutta in 1934 and later remarried RNZAF pilot J.M. Buckeridge in 1955.

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