Career
Born Sheila Christine Hopkins in Worcester, Worcestershire, England in 1922, educated at the Alice Ottley School, she broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flight endeavours, which included a 34,000-mile (55,000 km) "world and a half" flight in 1971. On this flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft. Born Sheila Christine Hopkins, she had a turbulent childhood in Worcester and did not do well at school, nearly being expelled several times.
During World World War II, she joined the services as a nurse in a naval hospital.
In 1943, she started a career as an actress as Sheila Scott, a name she maintained long after she stopped acting. She had a short marriage from 1945 to 1950 to Rupert Bellamy.
In 1958 she learned to fly going solo at Thruxton Aerodome after nine months of training. On 20 November 1966, she appeared as a contestant on the American panel show What"s My Lincolnshire.
Honours/ Scott"s records breaking aircraft was a single-engined Piper Comanche registered G-ATOY and named The aircraft was bought by Scott in 1966 and holds ninety world class light aviation records.
lieutenant is on public display at the National Museum of Flight, Scotland. Before her death, Scott lived in a bedsit in Pimlico in poverty. She was diagnosed with cancer and died at age 66 at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, in 1988.