{"id":17419225,"date":"2026-08-28T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=17419225"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:46:17","slug":"jerrie-mock-first-woman-solo-around-the-world-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/jerrie-mock-first-woman-solo-around-the-world-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerrie Mock: The First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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It was a 1953 Cessna 180 \u2014 a single-engine, tailwheel, four-seat lightplane of the sort that fills small-town airfields. Two of its seats had been pulled out and replaced with fuel tanks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On 19 March 1964 a 38-year-old Ohio housewife named Geraldine Mock took off from Port Columbus in it, alone, and pointed east. Twenty-nine days later she came back the other way, and no woman had ever done that before.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#333\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Pilot:<\/strong> Geraldine &ldquo;Jerrie&rdquo; Mock (1925&ndash;2014), Columbus, Ohio<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> 1953 Cessna 180, N1538C, named <em>Spirit of Columbus<\/em> &mdash; &ldquo;Three-Eight Charlie&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Departed:<\/strong> Port Columbus Airport, 09:31 local, 19 March 1964<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Returned:<\/strong> Port Columbus, 21:36 local, 17 April 1964<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Elapsed:<\/strong> 29 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes &mdash; 21 stopovers<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Distance:<\/strong> 23,103 statute miles (37,180 km), per the Smithsonian and the FAA<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Records:<\/strong> Certified by the NAA\/FAI as a round-the-world speed record for aircraft under 3,585 lb; the Smithsonian counts seven records in total<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>The aircraft today:<\/strong> National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC &mdash; the <em>Thomas W. Haas We All Fly<\/em> gallery<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The housewife framing was always nonsense<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Every newspaper in 1964 called her the Flying Housewife, and the label has stuck so hard that it still crowds out the actual story. Mock had been flying for eight years. She had a licence, an instrument rating, and a husband, Russell, who ran the preparation of the aeroplane with Al Baumeister.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What went into Three-Eight Charlie was not amateur work: a new 225 hp Continental O-470-A, two automatic direction finders, dual VHF navigation and communication radios, a long-range HF set with a trailing wire antenna, an autopilot and a new compass. Javelin Aircraft engineered the cabin ferry tanks that took the place of the passenger seats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fully fuelled she was roughly 900 lb over normal gross weight and flew on an FAA ferry permit. Sources disagree on the tankage \u2014 the Smithsonian says the extra tanks added 183 gallons for a 3,500-mile range, the FAA's own history sheet says 178 gallons total and about 25 hours' endurance \u2014 so take either with attribution rather than splitting the difference.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/cessna-180-n1538c-spirit-of-columbus-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cessna 180 N1538C, the Spirit of Columbus\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Three-Eight Charlie itself: Cessna 180 N1538C, <em>Spirit of Columbus<\/em>, preserved by the Smithsonian. Photo: Alan Wilson \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;On a long flight, where the plane is overloaded, if one engine of a twin were to quit, a second one wouldn&rsquo;t do much good. The average light twin isn&rsquo;t much good at maintaining altitude when it&rsquo;s loaded down.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Jerrie Mock<\/strong> &mdash; on why she chose a single-engine aircraft, <em>Three-Eight Charlie<\/em> (1970)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The race that was not quite a race<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Two days before Mock left Columbus, Joan Merriam Smith took off from Oakland in a twin-engine Piper Apache called <em>City of Long Beach<\/em>, intending to fly Amelia Earhart's equatorial route. The press had its duel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It was never a clean comparison. The National Aeronautic Association had given Mock the official women's round-the-world speed sanction because her paperwork was filed first, which prompted Mock to move her departure forward from 1 April to 19 March. The two women were flying different routes under different rules.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mock landed back in Columbus on 17 April. Smith completed her own flight on 12 May \u2014 55 days, and about 27,750 miles, some 4,600 miles further than Mock's route. She finished second in the headlines and won the Harmon Trophy as the outstanding aviatrix of 1964, awarded after she died in an unrelated crash the following February. Smith did not fail. She simply flew a longer way round.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aoSapBxdaI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">The Columbus Foundation's short film on the Spirit of Columbus and the flight that made it famous.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Twenty-one stops and a lot of ocean<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The route ran east: Bermuda, the Azores, Casablanca, across North Africa and the Middle East, on through Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Manila, Guam, Wake Island, Honolulu, and finally the American mainland. Twenty-one stopovers, mostly alone, mostly on radios and dead reckoning, in an aeroplane with one engine and no radar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There was brake failure at Bermuda, a wrong-airport arrival in Egypt, and long overwater legs where the trailing antenna and the HF set were the only link to anyone. There was also, near the end, arithmetic: the FAI's qualifying distance for a round-the-world flight was the length of the Tropic of Cancer, 22,858.8 miles. Mock added legs through Tucson, Texas and Bowling Green to be certain she cleared it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Somewhere not far away a war was being fought, but from the sky above, all looked peaceful.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Jerrie Mock<\/strong> &mdash; on overflying Vietnam, <em>Three-Eight Charlie<\/em> (1970), quoted by the Smithsonian<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/jerrie-mock-columbus-homecoming-april-1964-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Jerrie Mock after her return to Columbus in April 1964\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Home: Mock in Columbus days after landing, 20 April 1964. President Johnson presented her the FAA&rsquo;s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service two weeks later. Photo: AP Wirephoto via DPLA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Afterwards<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>President Johnson gave her the FAA's Gold Medal for Exceptional Service on 4 May 1964. The FAI awarded her the Louis Bl\u00e9riot Silver Medal the following year. She went on to set further FAI speed records in a Cessna P206 across the Pacific in 1968 and 1969.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>She never flew Three-Eight Charlie again. Javelin bought it, then Cessna, which displayed it at the factory before donating it to the Smithsonian in 1975. It hung at the Udvar-Hazy Center for years; it is now on the National Mall in Washington, in the <em>We All Fly<\/em> gallery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mock died in her sleep at home in Quincy, Florida on 30 September 2014, aged 88. Her ashes were scattered from an aeroplane.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpwfSZ0fc2Q\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:-8px\">WOSU&rsquo;s <em>Columbus Neighborhoods<\/em> profile, with archive footage of the departure and the homecoming.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Twenty-seven years after Amelia Earhart disappeared trying, a woman flew a second-hand Cessna around the world by herself, and the world called her a housewife. The aeroplane is still hanging in Washington. Go and look at how small it is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yd_SHDfOeIc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: National Air and Space Museum (object A19760976000 and museum features, 2014 and 2024); Federal Aviation Administration, &ldquo;The Flying Housewife&rdquo;; Jerrie Mock, <\/em>Three-Eight Charlie<em> (1970); NBC News and Associated Press obituaries, October 2014; Vintage Aviation News; Wikipedia cross-checks.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/beryl-markham-first-woman-atlantic-east-west-1936\/\">Beryl Markham: The Woman Who Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/amy-johnson-first-woman-solo-england-australia-1930\/\">Amy Johnson: The Typist Who Flew Solo to Australia<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/jean-batten-solo-record-flights-new-zealand\/\">Jean Batten: The Girl Who Beat All the Men<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1964 an Ohio pilot flew an eleven-year-old Cessna 180 around the world alone in 29 days. 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