About This File
FS2004 Percival Gull 4 G-ACGR. A repaint for Keith Paine's FS2004 Percival D2 Gull Four. G-ACGR c/n D29 was the 9th production aircraft manufactured by George Parnall & Co, Yate, Nr Bristol under contract to Edgar Percival, initially fitted with a Napier Javelin III engine & first registered to Sir Phillip Sassoon in 1933. Raced in the King's Cup in 1933 and 1934. Crashed on landing in Belgium on 12th October 1934, the wreck was stored in a barn until 1973.Following a long restoration the aircraft was fitted with a Gipsy Major engine and finally put on display in 1992 at the Brussels Air Museum. Repaint by Peter Watkins.