The Wallabadah great-grandmother admits she's no spring chicken but she's getting the most she can out of life and out of her birthday milestones. At the age of 80, her family sent her up in a hot air balloon, and then at 85, she took a motorbike ride up to the Tamworth lookout.

But for her 90th birthday in June, Daphne went a step further and took a glider flight above the local skies with the Lake Keepit soaring club and she's showing no signs of slowing down yet.

"Even though I'm 90, I'm a pretty active old girl," she said.

"All my life, I've loved doing things like that.

"I'm a little bit slower at doing things now, but people say to me 'you don't look 90'."

"I think that's the secret, I eat well and exercise and lead a very active life. I have a wonderful family to support me all the time and I've always got something going on with my family. It helps me stay young and I don't get bored."

It's been a busy 90 years for Daphne, filled with adventure, love and family.

At the age of six , she had her first taste of aviation when she took a Tiger Moth flight with her grandmother at the Barraba show.

"They used to call it barn storming and charge people for flights but we got freebies because my granddad owned the wheat paddock next door where they were landing," she said.

At the age of 11, Daphne moved to Newcastle with her family and later on in her life she met and fell in love with Sid who was a country boy at heart. The couple moved to the Wallabadah area in the 1950s where Daphne still remains after Sid's passing some years ago.

When she was 18 she was enlisted in the army during World War II as an anti-aircraft gunner where she learnt to identify planes likely to fly over Australian soil during the war she said it was a "big job".

She's been on a few flights since then including a flight with Sid over the great Barrier Reef on a seaplane for her 60th birthday.

For her 70th birthday she took a safari coach trip to Broome where she stopped at the Bungle Bungles and took a helicopter ride over the area.

Daphne said family and friends are already asking what she has planned for her 95th birthday and if she'll take the plunge and jump out of a plane this time.

"I have five years to think about it," she said. "But all the same, I've got to not fall off the perch."

With her five children, 12 grandchildren and 18 grandchildren (at last count) Daphne says she's still keeping active and enjoys her volunteer work in Wallabadah including the Red Cross who she's been with for more than 70 years. Her daughter Dianne could not be prouder of her mother.

"She likes to participate in life," she said.

The family also marked Daphne's 90th birthday with a celebration at Wallabadah's Marshall McMahon Hotel.