Constance Leathart

Constance Leathart
Born
Constance Ruth Leathart

(1903-12-07)7 December 1903
Low Fell, England
Died4 November 1993(1993-11-04) (aged 89)
Northumberland, England
NationalityBritish
Other namesConnie, Con
EducationCheltenham Ladies College
Ethelburgas School
Occupation(s)Aviator
Farmer
Employer(s)Cramlington Aircraft
Bristol Airport
OrganizationAir Transport Auxiliary
Known forPioneering female aviator

Constance Ruth Leathart (7 December 1903 – 4 November 1993)[1] was a British female pilot who flew Royal Air Force aircraft on transit flights in World War Two in the Air Transport Auxiliary.[2]

Early life

Constance Ruth Leathart was born on 7 December 1903 in Low Fell, County Durham into a wealthy family. She was the only child of Janet Ruth Grant (née Tennant) and Thomas Headley Leathart.[3] Known as Connie, she was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College, and Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate until 1921. She made a lifelong friend with Susan Slade who she met at the later school, both later becoming pilots.[1]

Flying career

Leathart started flying lessons in 1925 at Newcastle Aero Club. She wrote her name as "C. R. Leathart" on the application form, and was accepted before the club realised her gender. When she received her flying licence in 1927, Leathart became the first British female pilot outside London, and one of the first 20 overall.

She started an aircraft repair business, Cramlington Aircraft, with Walter Runciman, later Viscount Runciman, participated successfully in air races with him, and was one of a group of flying socialites.[2] She was "one of the first women to fly over the Alps, in a de Havilland Tiger Moth",[3] and was the first in Great Britain to design and fly a glider.[1][4]

Aircraft owned:[1]

Air Transport Auxiliary

When World War II broke out she was working in the map department at Bristol Airport and volunteered as one of the first members of the Air Transport Auxiliary, female pilots who delivered aircraft from the manufacturers;[2] her instructor in military flying was her cousin John "Jack" Armour.[1][5] She achieved the ATA rank of Flight Captain, flying heavy bombers as well as fighters to airfields in many countries.[3]

Later life

After the war ended she became a United Nations special representative to the Greek island of Icaria and received an award of merit from the International Union for Child Welfare. She reluctantly gave up flying in 1958[1] and retired to a farm in Little Bavington, Northumberland, where she cared for rescued donkeys.[2]

Leathart is buried at Thockrington church; she had requested her grave not be marked, but friends placed as a marker the stone she used to step into her unheated swimming pool every day regardless of weather.[3]

Northumberland Archives hold a collection of her papers including a number of photograph albums which record her adventures in aviation from the 1920s to the 1940s.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Constance Ruth Leathart". A Fleeting Peace: Golden-Age Aviation in the British Empire. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Constance Leathart: The forgotten 'aviatrix' of WW2". BBC News magazine. 9 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Constance Leathart: A Life in the Clouds". Northumberland Archives. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020.
  4. ^ Penrose, Harald (1979). British Aviation, Widening Horizons, 1930–1934. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Royal Air Force Museum. p. 12. ISBN 9780112902973.
  5. ^ Curtis, Lettice (2004). Lettice Curtis: Her Autobiography. Walton on Thames: Red Kite. p. 52. ISBN 9780954620110.

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