Danica Tomić ( sr-Cyrl, Даница Томић; 25 July 1905 – 16 December 1961) was the first woman pilot in

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and modern-day Serbia and the first woman with the pilot certification. Danica Tomić was married to pilot

Miodrag Tomić Miodrag Tomić ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг Томић; – 20 February 1962) was a Serbian and Yugoslav military pilot who flew during the Balkan Wars and World War I. Tomić belonged to the first class of six Serbian pilots trained in F ...

, which gave her access to books and materials related to aviation. In 1928, on the occasion of celebration of 15th anniversary of

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, Tomić performed

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s as a first woman in Yugoslavia to do so. In 1930 she applied for the call published in ''

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'' newspaper for course for reserve pilots at the Civil School for Pilots in

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. In 1933 Danica received certification for a touristic pilot. For this achievement she received congratulations from the magazine ''Naša krila'' (). There is a scarcity of public records on her life after 1933. Her husband was captured by the Germans and detained as a prisoner of war. He survived and left Yugoslavia following the war and settled in the

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together with Danica.

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