British-trained Ruthy Tu is the first Chinese woman to earn a pilot's license[13][49] and first woman to join the Chinese Army as a pilot.[50] Amelia Earhart is the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] Maude Bonney becomes the first woman to do a round-Australia flight.[51] Urmila K. Parekh became the first Indian woman granted a pilots license.[52] Hermelinda Urvina of Ecuador becomes the first woman in the country to earn a pilot's license.[53] Emma Catalina Encinas Aguayo earned the first woman pilot's license in Mexico.[54][55] March 30: Katherine Sui Fun Cheung became the first Chinese woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States.[56][57]