4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Percival P.3 Gull Six VH-CCM - 2008 Festival of Flight: Robert Frola· GFDL
- 2. Jean Batten's Percival Gull: No machine-readable author provided. Wangi assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY 2.5
- 3. Percival P.3 Gull Six G-ADPR Baginton 19.06.54 edited-2: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
- 4. Seascape showing Melrose's Percival Gull, by Frank Dunne, circa 1930s: Frank Dunne· Public domain
what is it?
The Percival Gull was a British single-engined monoplane, first flown in 1932. It was successful as a fast company transport, racing aircraft and long-range record breaker. It was developed into the Vega Gull and the Proctor.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 94 years ago, in 1932.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,126 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1932-03
- number built
- 48
- role
- three-seat touring and racing aircraft
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Hunting Aircraft
- engines
- 1× Cirrus Hermes IV 4-cylinder inverted inline air-cooled / de Havilland Gipsy Major / Gipsy Six / ADC Cirrus / Napier Javelin / Blackburn Cirrus Major
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 7.5 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 2.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 930 kg
- top speed
- 233 km/h
- cruise speed
- 201 km/h
- range
- 1,126 km
- ceiling
- 4,877 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q13949583, Wikipedia: Percival Gull (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.