Eleanor Wadsworth (née Fish; 15 October 1917 – 21 December 2020)[1] was an English second world war pilot, who served as one of the RAF's "Spitfire women".
She trained as an architect in Nottingham and began working for the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1943, through which she met Bernard Wadsworth, a flight engineer.
[3] From June 1943 to September 1945, Wadsworth flew 22 different types of aircraft, including the Hawker Hurricane and Spitfire.
[2] Throughout the war she was posted at several of ATA's 14 ferry pools, earning her a Class 3 licence allowing her to fly light twin-engine aircraft.
[3] When her boys finished school she returned to her architectural career at Greene King in Bury St Edmunds for fifteen years before retiring.