Vanita Kayiwa is a Ugandan airline transport pilot, who serves as a First Officer at Uganda National Airlines Company, Uganda’s national carrier airline, on the CRJ 900 aircraft, effective April 2019.
Kayiwa was born in Buziga, a neighborhood in Makindye Division, in Kampala, Uganda’s capital and largest city. She obtained her Commercial pilot license from the East African Civil Aviation Academy, in Soroti, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Kayiwa, a line pilot at Uganda Airlines, worked with Air Serv which upgraded her from pilot to captain.
A graduate of the East African Civil Aviation Academy, Kayiwa was the first female Ugandan Captain in Air Serv’s 32-year history.
Summary About Vanita Kayiwa
Fleet: A330
Position: First Officer
Total Time : Over 4,000 hours
Total Jet Time: Over 400 hours
Total Jet Command : N/A
Qualifications : ICAO Airline Transport Pilots License (Uganda ) , commercial pilots license (South Africa )
Commercial Aircraft Flown: Cessna Caravan 208, CRJ900.
She piloted Cessna 208 Caravans. She first flew as a First Officer, before she was promoted to Captain on the Cessna 208 “You have to work twice as hard as your male counterparts,” Kayiwa said in an interview, talking about her accomplishments in a traditionally male-dominated field.
“We women can do it, even the sky is not the limit!” “Flying is very exciting but to succeed you need to love it, dream it, and live it,” she advised young girls according to an interview at Air Serv website. In April 2019, she was hired by Uganda National Airlines Company, as one of a small number of female pilots at the airline.
