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    Airframe Family: Percival P-28/P-29/P-30/P-31/P-34/P-46 Proctor
    Latest Model:Proctor I
    Last Military Serial:P6271 RAF
    Construction Number:K.305
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-DPP
    Latest Owner or Location:Croydon Aircraft Company, 1552, Waimea Highway, Mandeville, Southland, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Proctor I.
    Built at Luton by Percival Aircraft Ltd. From batch P6226/P6275 of an order for 222 Percival P.28 Proctor 1s for RAF as radio trainers.

    13 July 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n P6271.

    5 June 1946

    To Air Service Training, Hamble Airport with c/r G-AHTV (PROCTOR 1, K305).

    From 26 October 1953 to 15 November 1953

    Ferry flight.
    Departed Southend at 10.40am on delivery flight to Australia, flown by Brian Wales and John Simler -Proctors had long-range tanks and plumbing installed on rear seats but no radio. Painted all silver. - Routing via Paris, flying time 2 hrs 10 min. Then Nice, Rome, Bari, Corfu, Athens (30.10), Nicosia, Beirut, Basra, Sharjah, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Calcutta (11.11), Akyab, Rangoon, Mergui, Penang. Singapore, Batavia, Denpasar, Koepang, Wyndham, Darwin.

    31 December 1953

    Civil registration, G-AHTV, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    1954

    To Arthur M. Lowe, Julia Creek QLD with c/r VH-BCX.

    27 May 1961

    To Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Shersby, Brisbane QLD. Based, Archerfield.

    1967


    Photographer: Neville Parnell / Geoff Goodall
    Notes: 1967 photo at Archerfield

    1974

    To Norm Thurecht/Redcliffe Flying Services, Redcliffe QLD.

    1976

    To John Harrison, Lawnton, QLD.

    1982

    To Ralph Cusack, Brisbane.

    1986

    To John Millson, Gold Coast QLD.

    14 September 1992

    To Richard A. Anderson, Gunnedah NSW.

    6 January 1998

    To Ross O. S. Shepherd, Kenmore, Brisbane.

    12 October 1999

    To Airtrek Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne.

    12 September 2006


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 2006 photo - whilst hangared at the Croydon Aircraft Company in Mandeville, New Zealand

    21 November 2006

    To Edgar William Clapshaw, Manukau with c/r ZK-DPP (Proctor I, K305).

    To Croydon Aircraft Company, 1552, Waimea Highway, Mandeville, Southland, South Island.
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    2007

    Restoration completed.
    Flying in all silver scheme, Gull style cockpit, in commemoration of Jean Battens Percival Gull.

    21 March 2018


    Photographer: Keith Bollands
    Notes: At Ardmore, in the former Tecnam hangar now used by the NZ Warbirds Association.
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