Originally Posted by http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/inst_reports2.cfm?article=4484
Evelyn Bryan Johnson is a most amazing person (see "Fifty Years in the Right Seat," September 1999 AOPA Flight Training). She is the highest-time pilot alive in the world today, with more than 57,000 carefully logged hours. (The only pilot who ever had more flying time than Evelyn was my old friend and one-time fellow employee, the late Ed Long, himself a CFI enshrined in the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.) Evelyn has more flying time than any other woman who ever lived, and is today, at age 92, the oldest active flight instructor in the world.
Couldn't work out exactly when this was written, but sadly it seems that Ed Long has now passed away.
Big shocker is that it's currently a female!