How old was Zara Rutherford when she became the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world?

At age 19, Belgian-British aviator Zara Rutherford became the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world and the first person to complete a circumnavigation in a microlight aircraft. On Jan. 20, 2022, Rutheford ended her five-month journey exactly where she started – in Belgium on Aug. 18, 2021._x000D_

Who was previously the youngest woman to fly solo around the globe in a single-engine plane?

_x000D_The previous record-holder is American pilot Shaesta Waiz. Waiz escaped war as a child during the Afghan-Soviet conflict. In 2017, at the age of 30, she became the first Afghan woman to be a certified civilian pilot and the youngest woman in history to fly solo around the globe in a single-engine plane. Waiz said she is feeling euphoric about her record being broken.