Winifred Crossley Fair

Winifred Crossley (9 January 1906 – 27 March 1984) was an aviator who was the first woman to be checked out on a Hurricane fighter.

In 1935, her father delivered and cared for the St Neots Quads, the first British quadruplets to survive.

"[4] She was one of the first women (the "First Eight") to join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), alongside Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Gabrielle Patterson, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather and Rosemary Rees, under the command of Pauline Gower.

[6] She later married Peter Fair (1906–1961)[7] an airline captain who was the head of BOAC's Bahamas Airways based in Nassau.

[12] A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the First Eight Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Rees.

The Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939–1945. C389