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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.

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ATA people - Men

		R Vic Baxter Jones - 1st officer
		E Heering

ATA people - women

		Ann Wood
		June Howden at Brize Norton
		Hazel Raines and Jackie Sorour at Brize Norton
		Jackie Sorour
		Maggie Frost
		Freydis Leaf Sharland

ATA people - groups

		Women at Hamble
		Whitchurch November 1942
		HQ Senior Staff, Heads of Ferry Pools 1942
		Flight Engineers at White Waltham 1943
		8 Ladies Rapide
		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 Airfields in italics are no longer active.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 Pageant, 30th September 1945
		No.1 White Waltham HQ
		No.1 White Waltham Advanced Flying Training School
		No.1 White Waltham 1945
		No.1 White Waltham Ferry Pool
		No.1 White Waltham - Tea on the Terrace
		No.2 Whitchurch
		No.2 Whitchurch - German Games
		No.2 Whitchurch
		No.3 Hawarden, near Chester
		No.3 Hawarden, near Chester on Google Earth
		No.4 Prestwick ATA's first office
		No.4 Prestwick ferry pool
		No.5 Luton (later moved to Thame)
		No.5 Thame - Dinner at Dinton Hall
		No.5 Thame Ferry Pool
		No.5 Thame Ferry Pool from Google
		No.6 Ratcliffe, near Leicester
		No.6 Ratcliffe, near Leicester
		No.6 Ratcliffe dispersal - count the types!
		No.6 Ratcliffe - Ratcliffe Hall
		No.6 Ratcliffe - Ratcliffe Hall - painting in Crew Room byyRosamund Everard Sttenkamp
		No.6 Ratcliffe in 2005
		No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds
		No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds
		No.7 Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Leeds
		No.8 Sydenham, Belfast
		No.8 Sydenham, Belfast
		No.9 Aston Down, near Stroud
		No.10 Lossiemouth, near Inverness (Luftwaffe photo)
		No.10 Lossiemouth, near Inverness
		No.12 Cosford, near Wolverhampton
		No.12 Cosford - Time for Tea
		No.14 Ringway, near Manchester
		No.14 Ringway (Manchester International)
		No.15 Hamble, near Southampton
		No.16 Kirkbride, near Carlisle
		No.16 Kirkbride - general view
		No.16 Kirkbride, near Carlisle

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