• Title
  Nancy Bird Walton standing in front of a De Havilland Tiger Moth biplane at Bankstown Airport, photograph by David Iacono
• Creator
  David Iacono
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  27 February 2007
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9680490
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - digital, TIFF, colour
  
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE (16 October 1915 – 13 January 2009) was a pioneering Australian aviator. Born in Kew, NSW, in 1915, she received her commercial licence at age 19. She was the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot’s licence, and the first woman in the Commonwealth to obtain a licence allowing her to carry passengers.
  
  Nancy became known as 'The Angel of the Outback' for her work as part of the Far West Children’s Health Scheme to fly nurses around the outback. She was 24 when she married an Englishman, Charles Walton, and had two children. He preferred to call her 'Nancy-Bird' rather than 'Nancy', and she became generally known as 'Nancy Bird Walton'.
  
  In 1950, Nancy founded the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (AWPA). She became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1966, and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1990.
  
  On 13 January 2009, Nancy Bird Walton died at the age of 93.
  
  References:
  Heffernan, Elizabeth. 'Nancy-Bird Walton (1915-2009)'. Royal Australian Historical Society. Accessed 15 August 2024
  https://www.rahs.org.au/nancy-bird-walton/
  
  Wikipedia. 'Nancy Bird Walton’. Accessed 15 August 2024
• Date note
  
  Copy: digital scan made 2024 from transparency made 2007
• Subject
  Walton, Nancy Bird, 1915-2009--Photographs.
  Women air pilots--Australia--Photographs.
  Biplanes--Photographs.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21145047

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