{"id":752626,"date":"2022-01-16T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/the-first-black-female-pilot-from-ghana-who-slays-with-airplanes-and-owns-her-own-airline-company\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:41:08","slug":"the-first-black-female-pilot-from-ghana-who-slays-with-airplanes-and-owns-her-own-airline-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/the-first-black-female-pilot-from-ghana-who-slays-with-airplanes-and-owns-her-own-airline-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Black Female Pilot From Ghana Who Slays With Airplanes And Owns Her Own Airline Company."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Before you proceed, please kindly click on the <\/span><strong style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Follow+ <\/strong><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">button at the top right corner for more informative, entertaining, and trending news  daily. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34c9b39913644181ae8068494efde488\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Every human being has a dream of becoming someone great or achieving something big in life but many of such dreams are never realized as sometimes a person with such vision may face some setbacks financially, physically and the norm of our generation, pressure from peers and bad . The few who are able to realize their dreams also usually turns out to be men with a rare case of women and among some of the women who have achieved their dreams is the twenty-five (25) year old <strong>Audrey Maame Esi Swatson<\/strong> who is the first youngest female black pilot from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Maame Esi was born on February 23rd, 1997 at Saltpond in the Mfantisman Municipal District in the Central Region of Ghana and is the first out of four children. She was schooled at the University of Ghana Basic School and continued her secondary education at Ghana Christian International High School at Does where she studied General Science. She got admitted at the March 1st Aviation Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa and had her first solo flight on April 4, 2016 at the age of nineteen (19) years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e53c7451a0d34515979c237dc222ba76\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She admitted that <span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">\u201cIn the beginning, it was just saying something big close to being a doctor or a lawyer. I was nine years old and in class four, and there is this frequent question society would always want to know what you want to be in future, and then I just had to say t say a pilot. And then again, in the beginning, I was really quiet. So I thought for a pilot you have to be in the cockpit and probably the passengers would just be behind you so you keep quiet, but during my flight training, you really talk a lot. I also wanted to be different, because when they call doctors in class there were a lot of people that are standing up; lawyers as well. And when I stand in class, they are like wow, and it\u2019s like the wow thing kept me moving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Maame Esi Swatson holds a commercial pilot license to the standards of the South African Civil Aviation Authority which she obtained on the eve of Christmas in 2018 which she later explained made her Christmas memorable. She is the first lady to work with Passion Air, a Ghanaian airline  where she operates the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3fae101ba43f432abbc7b2488a34a805\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Esi Swatson has set up her own aviation  called Excel Aviation Company with the hopes of helping other young girls who are also aiming to become great pilots like herself. She was celebrated by the Ministry of Aviation in Ghana and she attended a sponsored conference in the United States of America as the first African female pilot by the International Women in Aviation in 2016. She was also nominated and honoured at the Future Awards Africa Prize For Young Person of the Year in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>At such a tender age, Miss Esi Swatson has really made not only her family and Ghana proud but the whole of Africa and women all over the world as she has achieved so much in her mid twenties. I think she is someone every young child not only the females but both  should take as a role model as she has proven that one can achieve anything with determination and drive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/11527ab69197405e853f440fd9dc087e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: kuulpup_thepromoter (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAviation Academy<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nMaame Esi<br \/>\nMfantisman Municipal District<br \/>\nSouth Africa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you proceed, please kindly click on the Follow+ button at the top right corner for more informative, entertaining, and trending news daily. 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