The Edgar Percival E.P.9 was a 1950s British light utility aircraft designed by Edgar Percival and initially built by his company, Edgar Percival Aircraft Limited and later as the Lancashire Aircraft Prospector by the Lancashire Aircraft Company.
Edgar Percival E.P.9
N747JC at Oshkosh, WI. 2001
The sole new build Prospector Mark 2 fitted with a Cheetah radial engine. Exhibited at the 1960 Farnborough Airshow
First prototype dusting in East Anglia, summer 1959
Edgar Wikner Percival 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 Percival with his Mew Gull, UK, 15 March 1934
"The Hat" c. 1935