Born in 1914, she earned an aviation pilot license in 1936 at the age of 21 and flew a Gypsy Moth solo. After obtaining the initial license, she persevered and completed one thousand hours of flying in the aircraft owned by the Lahore Flying Club.
My bad, I skipped right to the career subsection where it says she didn’t obtain a commercial license.
Sarla abandoned her plans to become a commercial pilot, returning to Lahore and attending the Mayo School of Art where she trained in the Bengal school of painting, obtaining a diploma in fine arts.
According to the (horribly) written article she never received a pilot’s license. She was just one of the first women to “fly aircraft”.
My bad, I skipped right to the career subsection where it says she didn’t obtain a commercial license.