The film has an unaccredited narration by broadcaster Lorne Greene.During the Second World War, the importance of Allied strategic bombing of military targets meant that heavy bombers had to be available.

The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British wartime civilian organization, headquartered at White Waltham Airfield, Berkshire, England that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, Maintenance Units (MUs), scrap yards to active service squadrons and airfields.

[5] Historian Malek Khouri analyzed the role of the NFB wartime documentaries with Ferry Pilot characterized as a propaganda film.

"During the early years of the NFB, its creative output was largely informed by the turbulent political and social climate the world was facing.

World War II, Communism, unemployment, the role of labour unions, and working conditions were all subjects featured by the NFB during the period from 1939 to 1946".