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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Percival Prentice VS650 Wolves 05.53: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
- 2. E-390 Percival P.40 Prentice T1 (8164151272): Aeroprints.com· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Percival prentice at kemble arp: Arpingstone· Public domain
- 4. Percival P-40 Prentice T1 AN0311970: Alan D R Brown· GFDL
- 5. Percival P.40 Prentice T.1 S.J. Saggers G-APPL, STA Stauning, Denmark PP1118774874: Peter Bakema· GFDL 1.2
- 6. Percival Prentice T.1 frente @ JPA Escuela Técnica Jorge Newbery: Ari Detomasi from Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina· Public domain
what is it?
The Percival Prentice was a basic trainer of the Royal Air Force in the early postwar period. It was a low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Front seating was in a side-by-side configuration with a rear seat provided.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1946
- introduced
- 1947
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 526
- role
- military trainer aircraft
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Hunting Aircraft
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy Queen 51
- crew
- 2
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 14 m
- height
- 3.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,751 kg
- top speed
- 275 km/h
- cruise speed
- 257 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,791 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3899684, Wikipedia: Percival Prentice (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-11-08.