Percival Gull Six - Auckland, New Zealand
Posted by: denben
S 37° 00.283 E 174° 46.925
60H E 302656 N 5902304
This Percival Gull Six, G-ADPR, is hanging from the ceiling of the Jean Batten International Terminal in Auckland Aiport.
Waymark Code: WMN0C3
Location: North Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 12/01/2014
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Jean Batten's Percival Gull Six, G-ADPR, was used to set two world record flights. In 1935 it flew a world record journey from England to Brazil and in 1936 it was used for a world record solo flight from England to New Zealand.
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by taking a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world.
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