Bessie Coleman is the first African American to earn a pilot's license.[20] Adrienne Bolland becomes the first woman to fly over the Andes.[1] May: Carmela Combre was the first woman to pilot a plane in Peru, though she never attained a license.[21] October: Violet Guirola de Avila of El Salvador completed a flight in Guatemala becoming the first Salvadoran female pilot.[22]