This image of the Merganser taken from a Percival Aircraft brochure, c. 1947.
Role
Light utility aeroplane
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Percival Aircraft Limited
First flight
9 May 1947
Retired
1948
Number built
2 (1 flying)
Developed into
Percival Prince
The Percival Merganser was a light, civil transport of the late 1940s. It was a twin-engine, high-wing monoplane of all-metal, stressed skin construction with retractable tricycle undercarriage.[1]
^"Percival Merganser." Flight, 9 May 1946, p. 459.
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