Mari Pepa Colomer was the first Catalan woman to earn her pilot’s licence and is famous for managing to land a Zeppelin at the Barcelona aerodrome, where the airport is now located. It was here that she had her first taste of aviation in 1930, and where she flew numerous test flights. In 1932 she joined the Unió de Pilots Aviadors de Catalunya, which was established in that same year, and achieved official flight instructor certification. She subsequently worked as a teacher at the Barcelona Flight School and at the Cooperativa de Treball Aeri, which she and her fellow pilots co-founded. At the Escola d’Aviadors Militars military aviation school she coincided with Dolors Vives Rodons, another female aviation pioneer who she worked with during the Civil War, controlling enemy ships and recording aircraft movements in Barcelona and Valencia until the El Prat aerodrome was bombed. After helping thousands of Republican exiles to cross the Spanish-French border, she herself went into exile in England at the end of the war. She never flew again.
She was the first Catalan woman to earn her pilot's license and is famous for managing to land a zeppelin at the Barcelona airfield. She helped thousands of republican exiles to cross the border into France.