A Short Story of a Long Flight 1960 Southend It was 1969 and local Jersey dentist Bill Wilkinson flew his Percival Prentice G-AOMF from Jersey to  New Zealand; this is a short story of that flight. Bill Wilkinson had trained as a dentist at Otago University NZ during the 1950s, and had been active with the RNZAF Territorial Squadron based there during that time. After qualifying, he moved to London to practice dentistry but retained his interest in aviation by buying two Prentice aircraft, G-AOLU, and G-AOKF, in July 1962 and a third, G-AOMF, which was registered to WB Wilkinson on 7 Aug 1963. The Percival Prentice was designed as a basic trainer for RAF use, replacing Tiger Moths. The Percival factory was unable to handle the production order, so most Prentices were built by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough. Prentice T.Mk.1 c/n B3/1A/PAC-252 was built by Blackburn and delivered to the RAF in October 1948 serving as VS316. When the Prentice was withdrawn from RAF use in 19...