My flight to Auckland arrived earlier than scheduled this morning and the car rental company that I booked with, was not yet open. So I sat down with a flat-white coffee (what else in NZ?) to wait until I could call them.
While sitting there, I realized I had walked under Jean Batten's Pertcival Gull 6 G-ADPR, that is suspended over the International Arrivals concourse:
I went upstairs to have a better look:
Beneath the NZ flag on the rudder are the roundels of the Brazilian and Uruguayan Air Forces. The Percival logo on the fin says GULL VI:
I hadn't realized that she had flown this aircraft to South America before she undertook her England to New Zealand flight. A fascinating history, summarized on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Batten