Edgar Percival with his Mew Gull, UK, 15 March 1934
Born
23 February 1897
Albury, New South Wales
Died
21 January 1984(1984-01-21) (aged 86)
London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)
Aviator Designer
Edgar Wikner Percival (23 February 1897 – 21 January 1984) was a noted Australian aircraft designer and pilot whose aircraft were distinguished by speed and grace. Percival went on to set up the Percival Aircraft Company, a British aircraft company.
Edgar Wikner Percival (23 February 1897 – 21 January 1984) was a noted Australian aircraft designer and pilot whose aircraft were distinguished by speed...
Percival Aircraft Co. in Gravesend in 1933 by EdgarPercival with Lt. Cdr E.B.W. Leak to produce his own designs. The first aircraft was the Percival...
Aerodrome, England. In 1954, EdgarPercival formed EdgarPercival Aircraft Limited a few years after his original company the Percival Aircraft Company had become...
EdgarPercival Chance (1881–1955) was a British businessman, ornithologist and oologist who amassed a collection of 25,000 birds' eggs. He is noted for...
form. Following the success of the Percival Gull single-engined light low-wing cantilever monoplane, EdgarPercival developed a smaller dedicated racer...
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The Percival Proctor is a British radio trainer and communications aircraft of the Second World War. The Proctor is a single-engined, low-wing monoplane...
to 1993. It was originally developed by Hunting Percival from the earlier piston engine-powered Percival Provost basic trainer, and later produced by the...
Gull and the Proctor. The Percival Gull was the first aircraft of the Percival Aircraft Company, formed in 1932 by EdgarPercival and Lt. Cdr E.B.W. Leake...
The Percival P.56 Provost is a basic trainer aircraft that was designed and manufactured by British aviation company Percival. During the 1950s, the Provost...
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Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
the Saro-Percival Mailplane for passenger use. The Saro-Percival Mailplane was a three-engined monoplane mail plane designed by EdgarPercival, and built...
The Percival Pembroke is a British high-wing twin-engined light transport aircraft built by the Percival Aircraft Company, later Hunting Percival. The...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
The Percival Q.6 was a 1930s British communications aircraft built by Percival Aircraft Limited at Luton. Originally, the Percival Q.6 was a civil transport...
the Sopwith Pup with Australian pilot EdgarPercival testing the use of carrier-borne fighters. In 1926, Percival flew a Pup from a platform on turret...
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...
The Percival Prince is a British light transport of the early postwar period. It was a twin-engine, high-wing, cantilever monoplane of all-metal stressed-skin...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
Desoutter Aircraft Company Dowty Group Dunlop Standard Aerospace ED Abbott EdgarPercival Aircraft Elliotts of Newbury English Electric Euravia Fairey Aviation...
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