Which WWII pilot flew the most number of Spitfires?

As you can see on this site, we like to match pilot to aircraft, for a given date. If contributors add a note, the line becomes a mini-ORB entry (sortie details). But once the serial is added, it links to the actual Spitfire page which in turn lists all the pilots who have flown it.

In the case of this pilot, she was one of the ATA pilots flying Spitfires from factories to various RAF airfields. Her name, now quite well known of course, is Marry Ellis (NEE Wilkins). Our chief editor Kevin Charles has added many or most of the serials flown he could find for 1/Off Ellis, and you can see the list of her Spitfires flown as part of her ATA duties on her page on this site here.

When one clicks the serials she delivered, a list of other pilots who later flew that Spitfire in training or combat is then shown (if added to this site). Often times, there are images of this aircraft, taken at a later date before or after operations.

This pilot has flown, along with other ATA pilots, a very large number of Spitfires (and other aircraft too) in WWII, and, lots more information can be found on her page through added links to other sources online. Can we say definitively she flew the most number of Spitfires? Maybe, maybe not, as likely there are combat pilots who flew as many or even more, but she'd certainly be in the very few with such a record. We'll keep an eye out for super long lists of serials flown on the pilot pages.

Kurt