Mary Ellis was born on 2 February 1917 in Leafield, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was married to Donald Gordon Ellis. She died on 24 July 2018 in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England, UK.
Member of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), she piloted Spitfires and bombers of 76 different types of airplanes. She was manager of Isle of Wight Sandown Airport.
They actually went inside the aeroplane and searched it. Everybody was flabbergasted that a little girl like me could fly these big aeroplanes all by oneself. [At an RAF base, the ground crew refused to believe she was the pilot of the Wellington bomber she had just landed]
