page_title: Jean Batten
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Batten / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial sculpture to Jean Batten at Rotorua Airport
context_page_description: Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
context_section_description: Houses in Macleans College, Howick Intermediate, Pukekohe Intermediate School, Westlake Girls High School, Southland Girls' High School, Forrest Hill School, Kelston Girls’ College, Tauranga Girls' College 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 occupies the small block between Fort and Shortland Streets also bounded by Jean Batten Place in Auckland and has been incorporated into the new Bank of New Zealand head office building (36.8462611°S 174.7666611°E). The Auckland Airport International Terminal is also named after her. The Percival Gull G-ADPR in which she made the first solo trip from England to New Zealand in 1936 and many other record-breaking trips now hangs in the Jean Batten International Terminal.
  In 1939, after Batten had paid a visit to Walter Peak Station, near Lake Wakatipu, a 1,971 metres (6,467 ft) peak in the nearby Ailsa Mountains of Fiordland was named for her.
  A bronze sculpture of Batten is located in the main terminal of Rotorua Regional Airport and memorial panels are installed in the building. A small park in the middle of Rotorua city is named after her and the Jean Batten Memorial is located there.
  In September 2009, a Qantas Boeing 737 ZK-ZQA, the first International configuration plane of its type and Qantas's 75th 737 was named after Batten.
  Also in September 2009, a street in the area of Palma where Batten died was renamed Carrer de Jean Batten, or Jean Batten St.
  During the 1980s Britannia operated 737-200 G-BGYL, named Jean Batten.
  In 2016, Google Doodle commemorated her 107th birthday.
caption: Memorial panels to Batten at Rotorua Airport
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