Jean Batten's Percival Gull Six, G-ADPR, seen at RAF Kemble in its RAF impressment camouflage and serial. It was sold to Hunting-Percival Aircraft Ltd and restored at Luton. Eventually presented to the Shuttleworth Collection it was disposed of in 1995, re-registered as ZK-DPR it was flown once after arrival in New Zealand but now hangs from the roof of the terminal building at Auckland International Airport.

Destroyed at Camooweal, Queensland, on May 1, 1946, when the wing was severed by a power line. The pilot was killed. It is believed he was making a forced landing in the main street after running out of fuel. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Allan Nixon, eventual winner of inaugural Queensland Warana Air Race, 1968 guides VH-CCM away after refuelling. Built 1934 - reg G-ACUP in the U.K. Exported to Australia - sold to Connellan Airways on 31/7/39. After issue of an Australia Cert. of Airworthiness it became VH-ACM in Nov 1939. Wfu 16/10/47 - restored 17/12/47. Sold to pastoralist H P Davis, it was re-registered VH-CCM on 4/4/1949. Wfu 18 July 1950 - restored 12/12/51. Purchased by Alan Nixon, Brisbane, at some stage. Purchased by J Drage Wodonga, Victoria for his collection mid 1970's. Since restored and airworthy in Queensland.

New Zealand aviator Jean Batten seen here arriving in Darwin after her flight from the UK. She continued on to her home country. Photo from: Library and Archives NT

Built as a D.2 Gull Six and modified as a D.3 with a Gipsy Major in place of the Napier Javelin. Ground looped at Bourke, NSW, in May 1956 and damaged. It did not fly again October 1999 after a rebuild that took most of the 1990s. Photo from: Library and Archives NT

Acquired by the Shuttleworth Collection in 1961. Awaiting restoration at the time of the photo. Sold as ZK-DPR in 1995 and preserved in the International Terminal at Auckland Airport as G-ADPR.

In September 1977 it was transferred to the British register as G-AERD, but was deregistered in November 1986 on sale to Australia where it is displayed, still in its British marks, at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

The aircraft was cancelled from the British register in November 1986 when it was exported to Australia, and it is now on view at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

Registered to Jean Batten as G-ADPR in 1935 who flew it on a number of record breaking flights. Impressed by the RAF as AX866 in 1940. Restored as G-ADPR in 1946. To the Shuttleworth Collection in 1961. Sold as ZK-DPR in 1995 and preserved in the International Terminal at Auckland.

Fuselage of Jean Batten's Gull Six on restoration.

Built in 1934 as G-ACUP. To Australia in 1939 as VH-ACM and VH-CCM from 1949.

This beauty, built in 1936, was a visitor to the 1977 PFA Rally.

Built in 1936 and supplied direct to Switzerland. A total of eighteen Gull Sixes were built during the mid 1930s. This example became G-AERD in 1977 and then to Australia in 1986 but remains in store in Canberra.

This 1937 built gem of an aircraft was cancelled from the UK register in 1986 as exported to Australia. It now appears to be a part of the National Museum of Australia collection

Jean Batten's Gull Six bearing her name on its engine cowling. Used from 1935 in several record-breaking world flights. Impressed in World War Two as RAF AX866 and re-purchased by Percivals in August 1946. Later to ZK-DPR and now displayed at Auckland Airport.

Joe Drage's airstrip is now a housing estate. His collection became the basis of the now defunct Drage's Airworld at Wangaratta, Victoria.