Legacy
Houses in Macleans College, Howick Intermediate, Westlake Girls High School and Wellington Girls' College are named after her, as is Batten (Blue) House at Orewa College and in the whanau system of Aorere College in South Auckland. A primary school in Mangere is named after her as are streets in Auckland, Christchurch, Mount Maunganui, Wellington, Wallington and in her birthplace of Rotorua. The historic Jean Batten building on the corner of Fort and Shortland streets in Auckland has been incorporated into the new Bank of New Zealand head office building, and the Auckland Airport International Terminal is named after her. The Percival Gull G-ADPR in which she made the first ever solo trip from England to New Zealand in 1936 and many other record-breaking trips now hangs in the Jean Batten International Terminal.
A bronze sculpture of Batten is located in the main terminal of Rotorua Airport and a small park in the middle of the city is also named after her.
In September 2009, a Qantas 737-800, the first International configuration plane of its type and Qantas's 75th 737 was named after Batten.
During the 1980's Britannia operated 737-200 G-BGYL, named Jean Batten. It later crashed in Panama after being sold to COPA.
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