Terri Hull

Terri Hull faced financial obstacles along the way but by 1987 had soloed and got her first airline job at Mesaba Airlines, a regional carrier for Northwest Airlines, in 2001. She graduated college with a degree in education and married her college sweetheart. Working as a public-school teacher in Indiana, she said she was “always looking up.” Her husband, Bob, encouraged her to pursue her dream and Hull put away what money she could to take flight lessons, raising two daughters along the way. “I made every flight count to the next level,” she said of earning certificates and type ratings. Today she is a captain for NetJets and divides her time between bases at Daytona, Florida, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, and cares for her husband who is living with Stage 4 cancer. She spends part of her time in Fort Recovery, Ohio, her husband’s hometown and in a hangar home at Love’s Landing near Lakeland, Florida. She owns a 1946 Cessna 140, which she bought and upgraded in 1991, has owned a Hatz biplane, and bought a Van’s RV–6 in 2010. A member of Ladies Love Taildraggers, Hull stays active in aviation circles. At a recent airshow in Indiana, she was seemingly known by everyone and thrilled to be part of general aviation. “This is what we love to do. The only obstacles women have in aviation is the ones we put in front of ourselves,” Hull said.

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