Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1965)

Kara Hultgreen

US Navy aviator (1965–1994)

Kara S. Hultgreen was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. She died just months…