Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old American trainee pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States.

The 7-year-old pilot was Jessica Dubroff, an American girl who gained international media attention in 1996 for attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States. On April 11, 1996, while accompanied by her father and her flight instructor, Joe Reid, her Cessna 177B Cardinal crashed shortly after takeoff from Cheyenne Regional Airport in Wyoming during a severe rainstorm. All three people on board were killed. Because she was only seven, she did not (and could not) hold a pilot's license; her instructor was legally the pilot-in-command, but Jessica was at the controls for much of the journey. The tragedy sparked a massive national debate regarding the ethics of media-driven "child record-breaking" attempts. In the aftermath, the U.S. Congress passed the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996, which specifically prohibits anyone without a valid pilot certificate from manipulating the controls of an aircraft if they are attempting to set a world record.