Mildred "Micky" Axton
Micky took her first airplane ride at age 11 and was hooked on flying. She learned to fly in 1940 at Coffeyville Junior College in the Civil Pilot Training program. The WASP program required that all applicants posses a pilot certificate, so with that in hand, she joined the program in 1943. Micky was in the seventh graduating class of the program. She flew the training aircraft, as a test pilot for the UC-78 and in 1944 she was a crewmember on a Boeing B-29. After deactivation from the service Boeing Airplane Company employed Micky as a Flight Test Crew Member in the Engineering Flight Test Area. Micky also spent the years from 1958 to 1969 teaching various subjects including aeronautics and debate at the Wichita, Kansas, East High School.

Micky still flies whenever she has a chance and is active in the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers, 99’s and the Commemorative Air Force. She has been named OX-5 Aviation Pioneers “Aviation Historian of the Year” and Distinguished Alumna” of the Coffeyville Community College. Among her many honors, in 1998, the Jayhawk Wing of the Commemorative Air Force named their restored PT-23 “Miss Micky” in her honor.