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Sony Rana is a pioneer as Nepal's first female pilot. She received her aviation license in 1991 and is also the first Nepali woman to pilot a Boeing jet. Rana was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 17, 1965, and completed her education at Mahendra Bhawan School and Padma Kanya Multiple Campus. She later traveled to the United States in 1987 to receive aviation training. Sony Rana registered with CAAN in 1991 and started working for the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation as a trainee co-pilot in 1990. She became the first commercial Nepali female pilot and later received her Boeing license in 2005, working as a B 757 co-pilot. In 1993, Rana received the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (Fourth Class) award. Sony Rana is a pilot who is married to fellow pilot Bijay Giri. Unfortunately, Giri passed away in a plane crash in 2002. Sony Rana has one daughter and lives in Kathmandu.