Kara Hultgreen
| Kara Spears Hultgreen | |
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Kara Hultgreen with an F-14 Tomcat
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| Nickname(s) | Revlon |
| Born |
October 5, 1965 Greenwich, Connecticut |
| Died | October 25, 1994 (aged 29) Killed in plane crash off San Diego, California |
| Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1987–94 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
Kara Spears Hultgreen (5 October 1965 – 25 October 1994) was a Lieutenant and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when her F-14 Tomcat crashed into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72).
Hultgreen was born on 5 October 1965, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and raised in both Chicago and Toronto. Hultgreen moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1981. She attended Alamo Heights High School and received a congressional nomination to the Naval Academy but did not win an appointment. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Aerospace Engineering.
Hultgreen was commissioned through the Aviation Officer Candidate School at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where she was a Distinguished Naval Graduate.
Upon graduation (ranked third of seven in her class) she was assigned to Training Air Wing 4 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas for primary flight training with VT-27 in the T-34C Turbomentor. Screened for the Strike Pilot training pipeline, she underwent follow-on training in the T-2C Buckeye and TA-4J Skyhawk II with Training Air Wing 3 at NAS Chase Field, Texas.
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