Fanny Chollet


Fanny "Shotty" Chollet is the first woman in Switzerland to fly a jet fighter plane, the F/A-18. She is a career officer in the Swiss Air Force and currently holds the rank of Captain.

Career

Fanny "Shotty" Chollet graduated from Pully High School with a baccalaureate in biology and chemistry. She performed her military service in the aviation troops at the military airfields Payerne, Dübendorf and Alpnach. In 2012, Chollet was selected as a military pilot for the Swiss Air Force and joined Pilot Class 11 in the Swiss Air Force Pilot School in Emmen. She completed the first part of her education by earning a civilian commercial pilot license with instrument rating and airline transport pilot license theory from Swiss Aviation Training and a Bachelor of Science in Aviation from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. This was followed by one-year stints on the PC-7 and the PC-21. She is the first woman to fly the Pilatus PC-21. In December 2017, she received her military pilot's license.
In early 2018, she began her F/A-18 training in the simulator and with F/A-18D double-seaters. On March 18, she completed her first solo flight in an F/A-18C. She is assigned to the Fliegerstaffel 18 squadron in Payerne. She is fluent in French, English, German, and Swiss German.
Chollet is a member of the Appa. In addition, she campaigned in 2020 as an ambassador for the “Swiss Tecladies” program. She was committed to the campaign for the procurement of new combat aircraft.

Aircraft types

  • Pilatus PC-7
  • Pilatus PC-21
  • F/A-18C
  • F/A-18D

    Weblinks Single references

  • defensio.1-2019 "Mit Überschall am helevtischen Himmel. Page 10 - 15
  • "Erste Schweizer F/A-18 Pilotin" Schweizer Soldat, April 2019 Page 18 & 19
  • Schweizer Luftwaffe Jahrespublikation 2020 Frontcover & Pages 7-11. December 2019
Category:Living people
Category:1991 births
Category:Swiss Air Force personnel
Category:21st-century Swiss military personnel