80 years ago on July 10th 1940 the Battle of Britain began. ATA was still a young organization with around 100 pilots. What better reason to trawl through the handful of logbooks (among the 140+ in our collection) which were kept by ATA pilots serving at the time of the Battle of Britain. We have managed to find these entries which we hope will interest you. You can find all these logbooks in the online archive on this website https://archive.atamuseum.org/logbooks.php
Philip Wills (later Director of Operations)

17 August Hurricane St Athan – Tangmere
19 August Spitfire Kirkbride – Middle Wallop
Jimmy Nettleton

28 August Spitfire Hamble – Westhampnett (now Goodwood)
Stanley Brown (seconded from BOAC)
3 September Hurricane White Waltham – Kenley
10 September Spitfire Brize Norton – Middle Wallop
27 September Spitfire Little Rissington – Warmwell (satellite of MW)
30 September Hurricane Aston Down – Middle Wallop
15 October Hurricane Wroughton – Shoreham
Arnold Watson
4 September Hurricane Aston Down – North Weald (Essex)
Josep Carreras (the only Spanish pilot in ATA, the first ATA pilot to fly a Liberator bomber and an instructor on Catalina flying boats)

10 September Spitfire Brize Norton – Middle Wallop
Peter Mursell (later Director of Training)

23 September Spitfire ??? – Tangmere
29 October Spitfire West Malling – Gravesend
The ‘official’ end of the Battle of Britain was 31 October 1940.