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what is it?
The Percival Vega Gull was a 1930s British, four-seater touring aircraft built by Percival Aircraft Limited. It was a single-engine low-wing, wood-and-fabric monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12 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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 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
- 1935-11
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 90
- role
- aircraft
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Hunting Aircraft
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy Six Series II
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 7.8 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,474 kg
- top speed
- 280 km/h
- cruise speed
- 241 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,182 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2070209, Wikipedia: Percival Vega Gull (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-11-08.