Irina Burnaia

In 1933, she obtained her first and second degree flight certificates at the Mircea Cantacuzino Piloting School, where she had Petre Ivanovici as her instructor - she was the fourth certified aviator in Romania.
She is the first woman from the country to fly across the Carpathians.
In 1935, together with Petre Ivanovici, he plans a raid over Africa, on the route Bucharest - Cape Town. But, after successive failures, each soldier with one stop, ends, after 16,000 km, the raid at Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria.
In 1937, she obtained her acrobat pilot's license and was decorated with the "Aeronautical Virtue" order of peace. In 1938 he took part in a raid on the route Bucharest - Ankara - Baghdad - Bucharest, and in 1939 in the Bucharest - Warsaw - Berlin - Amsterdam - London raid.
During the Second World War he is in charge of establishing the Bug Squadron and a postal service in Tiraspol. After the invasion of Transnistria by the Soviets, he returned to the country and settled in Săvârsin.
She left the country in 1948 and in 1950 she was tried and sentenced in absentia, at the time when she was already in Geneva, Switzerland, by where he moves to Beirut, Lebanon. He dies in 1997.