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.

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

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.

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.

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.