Peggy Kelman
| Peggy Kelman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Margaret Mary Kelman 6 April 1909 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| Died | 23 December 1998 (aged 89) Buderim, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Aviator |
| Spouse(s) | Colin Kelman (m. 1936-19??) |
| Children | 5 |
| Parent(s) | William and Rose (née Dalton) McKillop |
| Awards | Order of British Empire |
Margaret Mary "Peggy" Kelman, OBE (6 April 1909 – 23 December 1998) was an Australian pioneer aviator.
Kelman was born as Margaret Mary McKillop in Scotland in 1909, her father was the Irish nationalist politician William McKillop, and her mother, Rose (née Dalton) McKillop was from Orange, Australia. Her father died in 1909, the year of her birth. Her mother returned to Australia and Peggy was educated at Rose Bay Convent, Sydney, as well as in France and England.
On 5 November 1936 she married, in London, Colin Kelman, an Australian farmer.
Colin and Peggy Kelman then returned to Australia continued as graziers both in Moree, NSW and Julia Creek, Queensland; the couple had 5 children.
Peggy McKillop Kelman died in 1998 in Buderim, Queensland, aged 89.
Kelman began flying training in 1931 at the Aero Club of NSW and gained her A licence (now called private pilot licence) in 1932, followed by a commercial pilot licence in 1935.
Her first and only paid job was flying for Nancy Bird Walton, barnstorming in western NSW in 1935. While barnstorming near Moree, NSW, Kelman met a young grazier with his own aeroplane, his name was Colin Kelman.
After their marriage in London, Peggy and her husband bought a used twin-engined light aircraft, a Monospar, and decided to fly home to Australia. That adventure began 19 December 1936. They flew by way of France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Burma, Malaya, Java, Timor, Darwin and Moree and arrived home on 15 January 1937.
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