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Bury Spitfire pilot Eleanor Wadsworth dies aged 103 | East Anglian Daily Times

WW2 s Spitfire Women : Eleanor Wadsworth, one of last female pilots, dies

BBC News Published image captionEleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary One of the last surviving Spitfire Women , who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died. Eleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew. The ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions. Mrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness. During the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.

Britain s last surviving female World War Two pilot dies at the age of 103

Britain s last surviving female World War Two pilot has dies aged 103 decades after she flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Hellcats. Eleanor Wadsworth died at her home in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk last month, reported The Sun.  She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) trainee pilot scheme after war broke out in 1939. Born in 1917 in Nottingham, Mrs Wadsworth was the last surviving British woman pilot to fly in the Second World War. Eleanor Wadsworth joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and continued to serve until 1945 Ms Wadsworth, pictured bottom left, flew 22 types of aircraft during her career with the ATA

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