Aarohi Pandit

Aarohi Pandit (born 10 February 1996) is an Indian pilot. In 2019, she became the world's first woman pilot and the youngest pilot-at the age of 23-to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean solo in a light sport aircraft.

Early life Arohi was born on 10 February 1996 in Gujarat and brought up in the state of Maharashtra.

Record making flights She embarked on the journey along with her co-pilot on July 30, 2018, taking off from Patiala, India and flying to 27 stops at Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, France, UK, and Iceland. On September 6, 2018, she began the solo phase of the WE! The expedition, in which she set four world records. She became the first woman in the world to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from Scotland to Canada with stops at Hofn and Reykjavik in Iceland, and Kulusuk and Nuuk in Greenland, landing at Iqaluit, Canada on May 13, 2019. Along the way, she also became the first woman in the world to fly over the treacherous Greenland icecap in a light-sport aircraft, on May 4, 2019. Thereafter, her journey across Canada, all the way from Iqaluit in the North East to the South, and the West and North along the Rockies into Alaska, negotiating with strong winds and forest fires in 22 flights over 9 Canadian provinces, made for another world first. On August 21, 2019, she flew the Pipistrel Sinus 912 over the mighty Pacific Ocean nonstop from Nome, Alaska to Anadyr in Far East Russia, setting a world record. Aarohi also set a world record for flying across the second-largest ice sheet on the planet, the Greenland ice sheet.

In March 2020, Pandit was also felicitated for ABP Shakti Samman Award by Smt. Smriti Irani – Ministry of Women and Child Development.