Constance Leathart

[2] Constance Ruth Leathart was born on 7 December 1903 in Low Fell, County Durham into a wealthy family.

[1][5] Aircraft owned:[1] 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.

[3] 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.

[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.