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exile, she applied and faced rejection numerous times from the aeroclub before she was eventually accepted, with limitations on her activities. She lived with relatives in the city during her training, and had to get up at 3:00 AM to walk across the city to the airfield. Eventually she made her first flight on a
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Nasukhanova worked in politics after serving in aviation for 23 years. After graduating from the
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Chechen nation was granted the right of return in 1957, Nasukhanova returned to Chechnya and briefly lived in Grozny. She applied to join the Makhachkala aeroclub in Dagestan, where after six months of training the cadets got to fly aircraft. Because of her official status as a former
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jets, and trained more than 200 novice pilots. After dedicating 23 years of her life to aviation she entered politics before her death as a refugee during the
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woman to become a pilot. Throughout her career she won many flight competitions, completed over 100 parachute jumps, gained well over 2,500 flight hours on
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