G-AEXF

G-AEXF began as ZS-AHM, The Golden City, one of the Mew Gulls built for the 1936 Schlesinger race from Portsmouth to Johannesburg. Its pilot, A.M. Miller, retired at Belgrade. Percival re-engined it and sold it to Bill Humble, who registered it in Britain as G-AEXF. Humble then swapped it with Alex Henshaw for a Leopard Moth.

Henshaw won the 1937 Folkestone Trophy but had an engine failure in that year's King's Cup. Essex Aero modified the fuselage and fitted a Gipsy Six R and a constant-speed propeller. In 1938 Henshaw won the King's Cup at 236 mph.

With extra tanks and a radio, Henshaw left Gravesend on 5 February 1939 and landed at the Cape the next day. The round trip of 6,377 miles took 4 days 10 hours 16 minutes, 39 hours 25 minutes of it in the air. The record stood for 70 years.

Henshaw sold it to a Frenchman in 1939, and it was hidden from the Germans during the war. Hugh Scrope flew it back to England in 1950. Its last race was the 1965 Manx Air Derby, after which it decayed. Rebuilt in the late 1970s, it was damaged twice more before Desmond Penrose restored it to 1939 form. Rob Fleming's Real Aeroplane Company flew it from 2002. The Shuttleworth Collection bought it in October 2013.

Kept in the Shuttleworth hangars at Old Warden between flying days and flown at summer airshows.