Margaret Cunnison was a Scottish aviator and the first Scottish woman flying instructor.
11 Facts About Margaret Cunnison
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Margaret Cunnison was one of the first women to join the Air Transport Auxiliary.
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Margaret Cunnison's family was originally from Blairgowrie, in Perthshire, but they were living in Milngavie.
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Margaret Cunnison's father, James Cunnison was a lecturer in political economy at the University of Glasgow.
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In 1933 Cunnison entered a competition to win an "air scholarship" with the Evening News and won lessons with the Scottish Flying Club.
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Margaret Cunnison got her A Licence in Scotland then travelled to Lympne, Kent, to get her B licence, and gained the second Scottish woman's commercial pilot's licence.
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Margaret Cunnison was already an instructor before the war and worked as an instructor with the Strathtay Aero Club.
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Margaret Cunnison joined the Air Transport Auxiliary with the other initial 7 women in 1940.
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Margaret Cunnison was the leading instructor at Hatfield Aerodrome responsible for evaluating and training the new pilots.
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Margaret Cunnison signed off on the American women pilots at Luton.
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Margaret Cunnison left the ATA to get married in 1943 to Geoffrey Ebbage, an ophthalmic surgeon with the RAMC.