Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world, has died at the age of 88, a family friend said on Wednesday.
Mock, a Newark, Ohio, native known as "the flying housewife," died in her Florida home on Tuesday, said the friend, Mary Kelley.
Mock was 38 on March 19, 1964, when she took off from Columbus, Ohio, in a 1953 Cessna 180 single-engine monoplane named the "Spirit of Columbus," according to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Archives.
Twenty-nine days and 23,103 miles (37,180 km) later, the five-foot (1.5-metre), 100-pound (45-kg) mother of three landed safely back in Columbus, 27 years after Amelia Earhart's much more famous - albeit unsuccessful - attempt to circle the globe.