Air Transport Auxiliary
During the years of the Second World War a short lived, but remarkable, organisation existed.
The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a civilian service that was tasked with the delivery of aircraft from factories to the squadrons of the RAF and Royal Navy and the delivery of supplies. Featuring pilots exempt from wartime service due to health, age and gender they gained a reputation for being able to take anything to anywhere.
- Civil Flyers
- On the verge of war
- Sir Gerard D’Erlanger
- Birth of the ATA
- A lack of work
- Stewart Keith-Jopp
- First female pilot
- Pauline Gower
- The first eight women
- ATA expansion
- Legion of the air
- Annette Mahon
- The Battle of France
- The Battle of Britain
- Women fly fighter aircraft
- Anything to anywhere
- The taxi service
- John Gulson
- Alison King
- The support network
- Women fly bombers
- Joan Hughes
- Return to France
- Communication
- The reach of the ATA
- The death of a service
- A final act of progress
- ATA closure