My grandfather was a bomber pilot in WW2 for the RAF.  He flew Hawker Hurricanes in the Battle of Burma.  I grew up listening to all his stories and have been enamoured with aircraft ever since.

I was inspired to start a career in aviation because of my grandfather, but also the stories I heard about the “Rosie the Riveters” that built the planes back home while the men were at war.  It definitely gave me the confidence to pursue this line of work!

I was hired right after I graduated from BCIT in 1997 and I was put on a crew that was doing a Convair cargo door… I think my very first job was scraping the non-slip tape from the airstairs!

Obviously, the world of Aviation is wide open for women these days! It’s come a long way from my experience over the last 23 years. In my first few years at KF we only had a handful of women on the floor.  Now we see women on every crew, in every trade!

I think that the new generation of young women don’t see getting into a traditional “male-dominated industry” as something to be intimidated by and think that’s really great! Hopefully, we can keep encouraging that confidence going forward!