Fran Ebbett was just a schoolgirl when she started dreaming of becoming a pilot and eventually she rose through the ranks to captain an Air New Zealand passenger jet, possibly the first Māori woman to do so.

Fran Ebbett was just a schoolgirl when she started dreaming of becoming a pilot. She joined the navy out of high school and did a seven year stint including overseas deployments to places such as Bougainville. But after leaving the navy her desire to fly remained strong so she trained to become a pilot and eventually rose through the ranks to captain an Air New Zealand passenger jet, possibly the first Māori woman to do so.

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