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Margaret Cunnison

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She left the ATA to get married in 1943 to Geoffrey Ebbage, an ophthalmic surgeon with the RAMC. They lived in London and had a son. Cunnison died in Haddington in 2004.
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In 2008, four years after her death, the fifteen surviving women members of the ATA (and 100 surviving male pilots) were given a special award by the Prime Minister
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Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier
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A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the "first eight" of the Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Cunnison.
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In 1933 Cunnison entered a competition to win an "air scholarship" with the Evening News and won lessons with the
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She was already an instructor before the war and worked as an instructor with the
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The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly
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responsible for evaluating and training the new pilots.
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First eight women ATA pilots IWM-C382 ATA 205211860
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Air Transport Auxiliary
Haddington
Blairgowrie
Perthshire
Milngavie
University of Glasgow
Laurel Bank School
Scottish Flying Club
Lympne
Strathtay
Air Transport Auxiliary
Joan Hughes
Mona Friedlander
Rosemary Rees
Marion Wilberforce
Margaret Fairweather
Gabrielle Patterson
Winifred Crossley Fair
Pauline Gower
Hatfield Aerodrome

Luton
Gordon Brown
A Fleeting Peace website, Pioneering Women: Margaret Macdonald Cunnison


The Scotsman website, Obituary, dated February 2, 2004
Scottish Aero Club website, A Brief History

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