Ronald Scott (aviator)

I was born in Villa Devoto, certainly, but what else could I do but go to war? When someone like Hitler kills the number of people he ended up massacring, I think something has to be done. That's what I felt. Beyond coming from a family of British origin, I felt it was my obligation as a human being.^[4]

Son of a veteran soldier from Scotland and a nurse from England, in 1942 at the age of 25, Scott signed up to the Royal Navy at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, where he fought as a volunteer until the end of the Second World War, where he was awarded the 1939–1945 Star.

Scott later returned to Argentina where he flew as a commercial pilot for Aeroposta Argentina, flying Douglas DC-3 aircraft to Patagonia. When Aeroposta merged with Aerolíneas Argentinas, he continued to fly, captaining a Douglas DC-4 and a Comet 4 before culminating his career flying the Boeing 747. He retired after logging over 23000 flight hours.^[5]

Scott lived in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Isidro and was the last surviving Spitfire pilot in Latin America. In 2021, he was made a life member of the Fleet Air Arm Officer's Association by Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian Johns, the former Second Sea Lord.^[6] Scott died on 17 April 2025, at the age of 107.^[7]