Not a famous person but one that deserves to be remembered.
WW2's 'Spitfire Women': Eleanor Wadsworth, one of last female pilots, dies
Mrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.
In 2020, the former pilot told
her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been "looking for a new challenge" when she joined the service.
"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it," she said.
She added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.
"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle," she said.
Tributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.
Ms McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots "will remain an inspiration to women worldwide", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow "Spitfire Women" had been "incredibly brave".
Author Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that "like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort".
"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own."
Her son Robert said she had been "a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother", who had been "matter of fact" about her wartime service.
He said she would say that "we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it".
Her funeral will take place on Tuesday.
Mrs Wadsworth had been one of three
surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.