When fire swept a hangar at Maylands Aerodrome, Romford, England, on February 6 last, one of the eight aeroplanes destroyed was the Percival Gull monoplane in which Miss Jean Batten, the Auckland aviatrix, made her solo flight to New Zealand in October, 193 G.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 8
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