The first president to get a pilots license was Dwight Eisenhower.
George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were both were military pilots. George H. W. Bush flew 58 combat missions in WW2 and George W. Bush learned to fly in the National Guard.
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Apr 6, 1927: William P. MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, received Pilot License No. 1, a private pilot license, from the Aeronautics Branch. MacCracken thus became the first person to obtain a pilot license from a civilian agency of the U.S. Government. http://www.faa.gov/about/media/b-chron
Bessie Coleman was a famous civil aviator. Coleman was the first African American female pilot to earn an international pilot license and stage a flight publically.
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No US President hadany record as a combat fighter pilot. George W. Bush was in the Texas Air Froce Reserves and he may have flown old fighters, but never in combat. His father, George H. W. Bush was a notable bomber pilot and flew dozens of missions in WW II. Dwight Eisenhower was certified as a pilot of some sort but never flew in combat.
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