Aviatrix Jean Batten at Charles Kingsford Smith International Aerodrome, Sydney, Australia

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Aviatrix Jean Batten at Charles Kingsford Smith International Aerodrome, Sydney, Australia

1936

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22680934

Aviatrix Jean Batten standing at the doorway of her Percival Gull Monoplane at Charles Kingsford Smith International Aerodrome, Sydney, Australia. Photographed by a Sydney Morning Herald staff photographer in October 1936.

1 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982

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Jean Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua, New Zealand. She and her mother moved from New Zealand to Britain in 1930 where Batten immediately pursued her ambition of learning to fly. In 1934, she flew solo from England to Australia in 14 days, 22½ hours, shattering Amy Johnson’s record by four days and becoming a world celebrity. She became the first woman to make the return journey to England and followed that up with a world record flight from England to Brazil, at the same time bec...