Airwoman Lores Bonney - Archerfield Airport Guide Claimed

Pioneering airwoman, Lores Bonney, undertook record-breaking long distance flights out of Archerfield Airport between 1931 and 1938. 

From Archerfield she broke the record for the longest flight in a single day (male or female pilots) on 26 December 1931 by flying to Wangaratta in Victoria To visit family on Boxing Day!).  

In 1932 she became the first woman to circumnavigate Australia by air in her De Havilland Gypsy Moth, leaving Archerfield on 15 August and arriving back on 27 September, 1932. 

Mrs Bonney also embarked from Archerfield Airport (Aerodrome, back in 1933) on both her successful London and South African long distance flights -- extraordinary feats of airmanship (er, airwomanship?)

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Images by courtesy of Archerfield Airport Corporation.

Information from the book Pioneer Airwoman - The Story of Mrs Bonney by Terry Gwynn-Jones. Published by Rigby Limited, Brisbane, 1979.