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ATA Gallery

Gallery

A small selection of photographs from the ATA archive is included here. The collection includes photographs of about 600 of ATA’s 1245 aircrew. If you would like to donate a photo or are looking for a specific photograph, please contact us.

Click on any thumbnail to view a larger image.

ATA people – Men

Ed Heering (USA) appointed CO of No 10 Ferry Pool at Lossiemouth
Wally Handley, pre-war Speedway Ace, killed in ATA service
Stewart Keith-Jopp, one-eyed one-armed veteran of World War I
John Cobb, holder of the World Land Speed Record

ATA people – Women

Ann Wood, from Massachusetts USA.
Delivered 900 aircraft of 75 different types.Served at Ratcliffe
June Howden (New Zealnd) at Brize Norton
Hazel Raines (USA) and Jackie Sorour (S Africa) at Brize Norton
Jackie Sorour (South Africa)
Maggie Frost
Freydis Leaf Sharland
Molly Rose
Joy Lofthouse
Pauline Gower
Margot Duhalde from Chile
Ruth Ballard, married an American ATA pilot
Diana Barnarto, the most glamorous of ATA’s women
Joan Hughes, one of 11 women to fly 4-engined bombers

ATA people – groups

Women at Hamble, 1944
Whitchurch November 1942
HQ Senior Staff, Heads of Ferry Pools 1942
Flight Engineers at White Waltham 1943, including

Freddie Laker (back row, 3rd from left)

The first 8 ladies to join ATA, 1 January 1940
Malcolm R, Fairweather D, Kempster J, Ellis H in 1941

ATA places – ferry pools

Ferry Pools in 1942 in the ‘mature’ ATA. Airfields in italics are no longer active.

We would be pleased to hear from anyone who can supply wartime photographs to fill in the gaps in our collection.

No.1 White Waltham
No.1 White Waltham Advanced Flying Training School
No.1 White Waltham, waiting for the air taxi
No.1 White Waltham, overhauling an Oxford
No.2 Whitchurch (nr Bristol) – German Games
No.3 Hawarden, near Chester (Google Earth)
No.4 Prestwick, where many aircraft arrived from Canada

and the USA.  Modern view of the airfield

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No.5 Luton (later moved to Thame) – modern view of Luton Airport
No.5 Thame – Dinner at Dinton Hall
No.5 Thame Ferry Pool, wartime photo
Initial Training School Thame
No.5 Thame Ferry Pool (from GoogleEarth)
No.6 Ratcliffe, near Leicester
No.6 Ratcliffe dispersal – count the types!
No.6 Ratcliffe – Ratcliffe Hall
No.6 Ratcliffe –
Painting in Crew Room by Rosamund Everard Steenkamp
No.6 Ratcliffe Christmas Dinner at Ratcliffe Hall.
Mr Taylor the Butler was also the banker for the card school!
No.6 Ratcliffe in 2005
No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds
No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds
No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, modern view
No.8 Sydenham, Belfast
No.8 Sydenham, Belfast, modern view
Stirling bombers and Sunderland flying boats were built here
No.10 Lossiemouth, near Inverness (Luftwaffe photo)
No.10 Lossiemouth, near Inverness
No.12 Cosford, near Wolverhampton
No.14 Ringway (Manchester International)
No.15 Hamble, near Southampton.
Opened as all women pool in September 1941.
The Operations Officer Alison King is handing out an aircraftcollection chit
No.15 Hamble Airfield ca 1998
No.15 Hamble. Nancy Miller (USA).  She wrote in her diary
I shot across the airfield at 10ft and 300mph
No.16 Kirkbride, near Carlisle, the last pool to be opened
No.16 Kirkbride – known to ATA pilots as “the salt mines”.
No.16 Kirkbride, near Carlisle, with a vast number of aircraft

in storage at the end of 1945

Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire, was used for ab initio training of ATA pilots, as a sub-section of No. 5 Ferry Pool, which became the ‘Training Pool’ at Thame

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