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    The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up at the start of the Second World War with headquarters at White Waltham Airfield...
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    The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were referred to as WAAFs (/ˈwæfs/), was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during...
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    Service Women's Auxiliary Air Force Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Home Defence Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) The Royal Auxiliary Air Force was originally...
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    Margaret Fairweather (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    British aviator and one of the first eight women members of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). She was the first woman to fly a Supermarine Spitfire. Fairweather...
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    the auxiliary services. These were the ATS, the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Women's Transport Service...
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  • Nancy Stratford (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    1919) is an American aviator. She flew warplanes in the civilian Air Transport Auxiliary in Great Britain during World War II and was later a pioneering...
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    Jacqueline Cochran (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    volunteered her services to the Royal Air Force. For several months she worked for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), recruiting qualified women pilots...
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  • Joy Lofthouse (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) as an ab initio pilot in December 1943. She went on to fly Spitfires and bombers for the Air Transport Auxiliary, and...
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    Honor Salmon (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    1912 - 19 April 1943) was a First Officer pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War Two. She was one of fifteen women pilots...
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    Diana Barnato Walker (category Air Transport Auxiliary pilots)
    World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 260 Spitfires. In 1963...
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