Editing Percy Pilcher (section)

==Legacy==
The damaged ''Hawk'' was given to the [[Royal Aeronautical Society|Aeronautical Society of Great Britain]] which exhibited it in that state, then in 1909 it was restored and given on loan to the Royal Scottish Museum in Chambers Street (now the main part of the [[National Museum of Scotland]]) which put the glider on display. It was on temporary loan to the 1911 [[Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry]], when a November storm caused damage to the building,  and to the glider which was repaired before being put on display again in the museum. During [[World War II]] it was put in storage. The fabric wings deteriorated, and restoration work was carried out by the [[Shuttleworth Collection|Shuttleworth Trust]]. Pilcher's ''Hawk'' was again put back on display in the museum. In 1985 this became part of [[National Museums Scotland]], and the ''Hawk'' became part of the collection of its [[National Museum of Flight]] at [[East Fortune]]. Further major conservation work was completed in the summer of 2016, and it is back again on display in its usual place, suspended above the atrium of the Science and Technology galleries of the National Museum of Scotland.<ref name="PP Hawk" /><ref name="Thorns 2016">{{cite web | last=Thorns | first=Gemma | title=Preparing Pilcher's Hawk to Fly Again | website=National Museums Scotland Blog | date=15 January 2016 | url=https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2016/01/15/preparing-pilchers-hawk-to-fly-again/ | access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref>

A stone monument to Pilcher stands in the field near Stanford Hall at the point where he crashed, and a full-sized replica of his ''Hawk'' glider is also displayed at Stanford Hall. 

Pilcher is one of the unsuccessful aviation pioneers mentioned in the [[Marc Blitzstein]] composition ''[[The Airborne Symphony]]''.

In 2011 he was one of seven inaugural inductees to the [[Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://engineeringhalloffame.org/inductees/2011 |title=Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees (2)|publisher=Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame|year=2012 |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref>