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Key facts
- Born
- 1992 (age 33 – 34), Logar , Afghanistan
- Allegiance
- Afghanistan
- Branch
- Afghan Air Force
- Service years
- 2012–2018
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Afghanistan
- Place of birth
- Afghanistan
- Occupation
- aircraft pilot
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Nilofar Rahmani in May 2013.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1992-00-00
- Commons category
- Niloofar Rahmani
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Niloofar Rahmani (Dari: نیلوفر رحمانی, born early 1990s) is the first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator in Afghanistan's history and the first female pilot in the Afghan Air Force since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Though her family received death threats, she persevered to complete her training and won the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award in 2015.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Niloofar Rahmani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.