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Gabrielle Patterson (Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Burr) was born on 6 July, 1905 in Paddington, London, England, is a British aviator (1905–1968). Discover Gabrielle Patterson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Burr
Occupation pilot, instructor
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 6 July, 1905
Birthday 6 July
Birthplace Paddington, London, England
Date of death 31 October, 1968
Died Place High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality Oman

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1905

Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Patterson (Burr; 1905–1968) was a British aviator who worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary.

She was Britain's first woman flying instructor.

She was born in Maida Vale in London on 6 July 1905.

She was the eldest of four children.

Her father, Malcolm Burr, a mining engineer, earned his money as a teacher although his passion was insects.

Her mother Clara Millicent Goode and her siblings moved with their father and she received an education in various European locations "including Paris, Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna".

She became company secretary at her mother's family firm.

1931

She was not tall but she was well off so she was able to gain a pilots licence and subsequently an instructors licence in 1931 in time for a flying event at Reading with other women pilots including Amy Johnson.

She did not court publicity but she did in time attract attention.

Gabrielle Burr met her husband Arthur Patterson around the same time, and taught him to fly.

They were married in June 1931 and their only child, a boy named Ian was born the following year.

The couple both worked in airfields and bought a Miles Hawk plane.

1934

Gabrielle Patterson earned a 'B' licence and began working as a commercial pilot for Silvertown Lubricants Ltd. then worked in sales management for Miles Aircraft Company, which was part owned by another pilot Maxine 'Blossom' Miles, who designed the Miles Hawk G-ACIZ aircraft which Patterson flew in the King's Cup Air Race in 1934.

1936

From May 1936 until August 1937 she was the instructor at the South Staffordshire Aero Club at the newly opened Walsall Airfield.

1938

For the opening of Chigwell aerodrome (the aerodrome was being made available to the Women's Air Reserve ) in 1938 Patterson arranged an aerial event which included a number of aerial displays including those of representatives from other countries - including the German women pilots Melitta von Stauffenberg and Elly Beinhorn - against a backdrop of increased tension in Europe, the event coinciding with the Munich Crisis

1939

When war broke out in 1939 she join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).

She was already well known as leader of the National Women’s Air Reserve as part of which she had taught fellow ATA pilot Margot Gore to fly and trained her as a flight instructor.

She was the first woman flying instructor and she had several years experience as an instructor before she joined.

She became one of the ATA's first eight pilots alongside Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Rosemary Rees, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather, and Winifred Crossley Fair, under the command of Pauline Gower.

One of their first tasks was to deliver eight Tiger Moth planes to Scotland.

They would need to fly in winter in these open cockpit planes.

Patterson had a range of over twenty aircraft that she could fly although her short height was noted as a restriction on her abilities.

In time Pauline Gower who had recruited the first eight was able to argue that they should be allowed to fly any type of aircraft.

1941

In 1941, she approached the Women's Engineering Society (of which she was a member) to create the Amy Johnson Memorial Fund, in memory of her ATA colleague and former Women's Engineering Society president.

Patterson devoted a lot of time and energy toward the project and created its initial publicity materials.

1943

In 1943 they achieved pay parity with male pilots.

Before that they had routinely been paid only 80% of the male wage.

Due to illness Patterson was grounded in 1943 and left the ATA.

1950

When the war ended Patterson continued flying and instructing as the commandant of the Women’s Junior Air Corps until 1950.

1954

She taught flying at aero clubs until she had to stop for medical reasons following which she took a degree at Manchester University from 1954 to 1956.

1956

In 1956 she went to study through a scholarship at the Sorbonne.

and moved to France.

After falling ill she returned to the UK to live with her sisters.

1968

She died of cancer on 31 October 1968 and her ashes were released over White Waltham Airfield.

A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the "first eight" of the Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Gabrielle Patterson.

2008

The fifteen surviving women members of the ATA (and 100 surviving male pilots) were given a special award in 2008 by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.