Category: Air Transport Auxiliary

CURTIS, Lettice. The Forgotten Pilots: A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary 1939-45. xv, 337p., illus. Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1971. ISBN: 0854291237.

A good history of the organisation that delivered aircraft to the RAF and FAA.  A second edition was published by E. L. Curtis in 1982.  

DU CROS, Rosemary. ATA Girl: Memoirs of a Wartime Ferry Pilot. 105p., illus. London: Muller, 1983. ISBN: 0946569002.

Entertaining although brief account of service in the Air Transport Auxiliary ferrying aircraft for the RAF and Fleet Air Arm.

KING, Alison. Golden Wings: the Story of Some of the Women Ferry Pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary. 191p., illus., index. London, Pearson, 1956.

An early and somewhat hagiographic account. Reprinted by White Lion in 1975 (ISBN: 0856174483).

VOLKERSZ, Veronica. The Sky and I: Leaves from the Log Book of a British Airwoman in War & Peace including the first full story of the Air Transport Auxiliary. 200p., illus. London, W. H. Allen, 1956.

The author qualified as a pilot in the Civil Air Guard before the war and joined the ATA in 1940, flying with them throughout the war.   She flew inter alia naval aircraft, the characteristics of some of which are commented upon.   She later ferried Typhoons to Pakistan before flying for a charter company.