Percival Prince

The Percival Prince was a British light transport of the early postwar period, a twin-engine, high-wing, cantilever monoplane of all-metal stressed-skin construction with a retractable tricycle undercarriage. Its design continued from the single Merganser. The civil Prince was produced in six versions, powered by Alvis Leonides radial engines, and several flew as executive aircraft for firms such as Standard Motors and Shell Oil. The Survey Prince had a lengthened transparent nose and camera hatches, and the Sea Prince served the Royal Navy as a transport and as a navigation and anti-submarine trainer from 1954 to 1972, and as a navigation trainer until 1978. An improved Prince 3 with a longer wingspan was developed into the Percival Pembroke for the Royal Air Force.