Spitfire Mk.IX. Maureen Dunlop of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). From “Work of the Ferry Pilots” Picture Post of Sep.'44.
At the end of hostilities, Dunlop qualified as a flying instructor at
RAF Luton, before returning to Argentina. There she instructed pilots and flew for the
Argentine Air Force, and also worked as a commercial pilot. Dunlop later held a partnership in an
air taxi company, continuing to fly actively until 1969.
In 1955 she married retired Romanian diplomat Serban (Şerban) Victor Popp after meeting him at a
British Embassy function in Buenos Aires. The couple had a son and two daughters, raised on their stud farm
Milla Lauquen Stud. In 1973, the family moved to
Norfolk to breed pure-blood
Arab horses. Her husband died in 2000.
In 2003, Dunlop was one of three female ATA pilots who were awarded the
Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators Master Air Pilot Award. The other two women pilots were
Lettice Curtis and
Diana Barnato Walker.
She died on 29 May 2012, at her home in Norfolk.