Percival Proctor

The Proctor was a low-wing wooden aircraft derived from Percival’s pre-war Vega Gull tourer, adopted by the RAF for communications duties and as a radio trainer. In its trainer form it carried a wireless operator under instruction in the cabin behind the pilot, teaching the radio skills that aircrew would need on operations; in communications form it carried passengers and despatches between stations. More than a thousand were built, and the Proctor was a familiar sight ferrying staff officers and urgent mail around the wartime RAF.