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Field Service Cap of an Air Transport Auxiliary Male Member

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 78/U/981

The Air Transport Auxiliary was made up of both male and female members who ferried aircraft to wherever they were needed. Their uniform was designed in a similar style to the RAF but in a dark navy blue.

Blue grey fabric cap with metal at front and metal badge on left side, © RAF Museum

Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1883

Ethel Gabain produced two Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) subjects for her Official War Artist commission about ‘women doing men’s work in wartime’. In this work she represents female pilots departing from Hatfield aerodrome in a Tiger Moth.

Ferry Pilots by Ethel Gabain, lithograph, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Captain Eric Melrose Brown, 3 December 2014

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6791

Recorded interview with Eric Brown, who served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and as a test pilot, working on deck landing and the testing of captured aircraft.

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Collection of combat reports, 1939-1945

Archives, X008-5400

Combat reports were official documents detailing operational encounters with enemy aircraft, and a vital intelligence source. This extensive collection features over 16,000 original reports, organised by squadron. They cover actions by squadrons in Bomber, Fighter, and Transport Command, as well as Fleet Air Arm Squadrons, Merchant Ship Fighter Units and the Air Transport Auxiliary.

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Flight testing of Spitfire Vs from Castle Bromwich

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC92/216

Film in which new Spitfire fighter aircraft are test-flown before being collected by pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary. The aircraft are seen on the ground and in air-to-air footage.

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