News & Events
All members are welcome to join our events throughout the year including the AGM and annual dinner and the ATA memorial service in November at Westminster Abbey.
AGM, DINNER AND AERO DAY AT WHITE WALTHAM
September 2026
The ATA Association held its AGM and Dinner on Friday 4 September at the historic The Olde Bell in the Hurley, north of Maidenhead in Berkshire.
On Saturday 5 September members also attended the West London Aero Club Members' Day event at White Waltham Airfield - home of the ATA's wartime HQ - joining the Maidenhead Heritage Centre's stand to promote the ATA and ATA Association.
We also held our annual wreath laying ceremony at the ATA memorial which is behind the Clubhouse. This is an ideal opportunity to commemorate all those who flew with the ATA throughout the Second World War. We were pleased to welcome new members to both the AGM and White Waltham.
Spitfire Girls Tour 2026
Committee member Caroline Speirs (centre), whose mother Rita Baines flew with the ATA, met the cast of Spitfire Girls in Buxton in March. Caroline will be giving a post-show talk at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton on 28 May. More details here.
The play from Tilted Wig Productions made its debut in March 2025 at the MAST Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, and was attended by a number of ATAA members. Candida Adkins, daughter of ATA pilot Jackie Moggridge gave a post-show talk about her mother's aviation career highlights, with poems from Sisters in Spitfires by Alison Hill (below).
