Youngest pilot
- James Dunn Mathis at age 16 was the youngest pilot to fly solo across the United States.
- Vicki Van Meter (1982–2008) was the youngest pilot to fly east to west across the continental United States of America, and the youngest female pilot to cross in either direction.
- Antonio Maldonado (born 1941) was an officer of the United States Air Force, who in 1967 became the youngest pilot and Aircraft Commander of a B-52 Stratofortress nuclear bomber.
- Barrington Antonio Irving, Jr. (born November 11, 1983) was the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo.
- Jean Burns (born December 1919) was Australia's youngest female pilot in 1937.
- Farnum Thayer Fish (1896–1978) was the youngest licensed aviator in the world in 1913.
- Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940) was youngest licensed pilot in the United States in 1927.
- Robert Nietzel Buck (1914–2007) was youngest licensed pilot in the United States in 1930.