Tracey Curtis-Taylor (born 1962) is a British aviator who has organised and piloted multiple flight expeditions with historic aircraft across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America.

[3] She initially became interested in aviation while visiting air shows on the west coast of Canada with her family;[4] her father in particular had a passion for vintage cars and planes.

[10][11]In December 2012, Curtis-Taylor was part of a four-person Russian crew that was flying an Antonov An-2 biplane from Kyiv to deliver in Cape Town, arriving in February 2013.

In 2013, Curtis-Taylor flew in a Boeing-Stearman biplane in an eight-week journey, covering over 13,000 km, from Cape Town, South Africa to the Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex, England.

[15] The journey comprised a total of 38 legs and 110 basic VFR flying hours,[9] and followed the 1928 flight of Mary, Lady Heath, from Cape Town to Cairo, Egypt,[7][16] travelling over Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan.

[15] One of the legs of the journey was shared with a retired Royal Air Force Group Captain pilot and historian, Bill Sykes, and sought to locate the site where Lady Heath crash-landed in 1928.

In October 2014, the Light Aircraft Association awarded Curtis-Taylor the Bill Woodhams Trophy for a "feat of navigation, aviation, tenacity and endurance" on her flight from Cape Town to the United Kingdom.

[32] Also in 2016, the Honourable Company of Air Pilots awarded her its Masters Medal for her work in "raising awareness of science and technology in general, and aviation in particular, amongst young women across the world".

[35][37] In newspaper reports Curtis-Taylor has denied making "false assertions about the nature of my flights"[38] and has stated 'To suggest I have hoodwinked the public, deceived all my sponsors, the media, everyone, is just disgraceful'.