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Nubia Rosa Gutiérrez Bravo
Nubia Rosa Gutiérez Bravo, (13 April 1945 – 03 January 1991) was a Venezuelan Lady who was a Private Aviation Pilot and who became the First Female Instructor in Flight Simulations in Latin America.

Nubia Rosa Gutiérrez Bravo or Nubia Rosa Gutiérrez Bravo de Cañas, was born in La Cañada, Maracaibo, Estado Zulia, Venezuela. (13-April-1945 / 03-January-1991). She was the First Female who became a Flight Simulated Instructor in Latin America. She worked for a Private Aviation School called Halcon, 'La Universidad Del Aire', which was located in Santa Paula, Caracas, Venezuela. During her early years, she studied at 'Colegio La Guadalupe' School and later she became a Kindergarden Teacher.



Nubia Rosa, married an Aviation Commercial Pilot, Capt Luis Emiro Cañas Gonzalez, who was one of the first Commercial Pilots crew of the Venezuelan International flag Airliner VIASA. However, in 1975 she started her Aviation studies in another Aviation School called Aeronautic Institute GOBESA (Instituto Aeronautico Gobesa) as Halcon was not established yet. A group of 16 Ladies joined as they wanted to be Private Pilots and this was unique, as it has not happened again since then, at least in Venezuela.

This group of Venezuelan Ladies were called "The Amazons Of The Air" by the Venezuelan Newspaper 'El Nacional". Some of Ladies of this group were: Carlota Martínez de Anglade Oropeza, Adela Zisman, Beatriz Mikalauskas de Domínguez, Mercedes de Römer, Federica Pietri de Riveroll, Elizabeth Melchert Larrazabal de Frías, Mariela Pérez Mibelli de Arismendi, Margarita Zingg, Marelisa Sosa de Villegas, amongst others.

When learning to fly she had many adventures with her classmates, for instance an emergency situation when approaching to the Airport La Carlota in Caracas, when flying with Marelisa Sosa de Villegas and her son Ivan Emiro Cañas Gutierrez due to a technical fault; or when her husband Capt Luis Emiro Cañas Gonzalez saved Margarita Zingg de Blohm, as she was known at the time, by helping her to land in Higuerote Airport when Margarita Zingg was doing her first ‘Solo Flight’.

Her Parents were Angel Gutiérrez Fister and Aura Bravo de Gutierrez. Nubia Rosa had two brothers, Romer and Nelson Gutiérrez Bravo, and her mother was a cousin of Ines Delia Bravo Valbuena, who inherited an Hacienda or Rancho along with other properties in Maracaibo, Zulia State. Ines Delia Bravo Valbuena married Joaquin Brillembourg Juliao, who used to work for her family, and who later became a very well known business man, whose abilities increased the fortune of the Brillembourg Bravo family.



Nubia Rosa Gutierrez Bravo, was an unexpected child, as her mother was too old to get pregnant, reason why her name Nubia Rosa means: "The Rose of Nubia Desert" She had four children Lord Ivan Emiro Cañas Gutiérrez, Emmy Del Valle Cañas Gutiérrez, Cynthia Rosa Cañas Gutiérrez and Selena Lucia Cañas Gutiérrez and got divorced after 25 years of marriage. Sadly, she passed away in very sad circumstances as she took her own life, due to years of emotional suffering because of a roller coaster life of domestic violence.