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    Airframe Family: Percival Mew Gull
    Latest Model:Mew Gull
    Construction Number:E22
    Last Civil Registration:G-AEXF
    Compressed ID:Percival Mew Gull cn E22 cr G-AEXF
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a Mew Gull.
    One of only 6 Mew Gulls built

    1936

    To A. M. Miller with new c/r ZS-AHM.
    Operated with markings: The Golden City

    1937

    To Alex Henshaw with new c/r G-AEXF.

    July 1938

    Winner of the Kings Cup Air Race at Hatfield.

    From 5 February 1939 to 9 February 1939

    Percival E.2H Mew Gull G-AEXF (c/n E.22) flown solo by Alex Henshaw from Gravesend to Capetown and return via the Sahara, in a record-breaking, and still unbeaten, elapsed time of 4 days 10 hours 20 minutes-time airborne 39hr 36 min-the longest-standing long distanceflying record of all time.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    Circa 1978


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1978 photo at Old Warden

    From 31 May 1983 to 1 May 1986

    To Thomas Michael Storey keeping c/r G-AEXF.

    From 1 May 1986 to 8 July 2002

    To John Desmond Penrose keeping c/r G-AEXF.

    From 8 July 2002 to 22 October 2013

    To Robert Arthur Fleming keeping c/r G-AEXF.

    Circa 2003


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Reno.

    11 July 2009


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 2009 photo taken at Breighton

    22 October 2013

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-AEXF.

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Duxford
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