I have been asked about a photo that turned up on Canvey Island.
It was said to be a Blackburn aircraft, but I think it’s a Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c, did Blackburn licence build them?
Also any clue what the 10,000 could be on the side of the aircraft? and an outside chance where was it taken!
By: wieesso - 8th June 2011 at 15:45
The same photo is reproduced in Putnams Blackburn and was the only british military a/c to carry a five figure number, so presumably the location is at Blackburns at Brough and not Leeds (Olympia). The badge is Blackburn’s original badge.
John
Ian Allan, “British Military Aircraft Serials 1911-1971”, p.42
Serial Nos. 9951-10000, Qty. 50, Aircraft Type B.E.2c (90 hp R.A.F.), Remarks Built by the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Co. Ltd., Leeds
By: |RLWP - 8th June 2011 at 13:25
It’s in the Windsock Datafile #42, J.M Bruce, Albatros Productions, 1993, page 31 as:
Blackburn built BE2c, No 10,000 was delivered to the RNAS Observer’s school Eastchurch, on July 19 1917. It’s career was brief: after a crash at Eastchurch it was deleted on August 31 1917
Richard
By: Old Fart - 8th June 2011 at 13:14
Cheers Many Thanks.
By: John Aeroclub - 8th June 2011 at 00:13
The same photo is reproduced in Putnams Blackburn and was the only british military a/c to carry a five figure number, so presumably the location is at Blackburns at Brough and not Leeds (Olympia). The badge is Blackburn’s original badge.
John
By: RPSmith - 7th June 2011 at 23:42
According to the ‘bible’ by Bruce (“British Aeroplanes 1914 – 1918”) Blackburn built 108 examples (if my maths is correct) of the BE2c.
Aircraft no 10000 was the last of a batch of 50 for the Admiralty. I can’t remember seeing a five number serial number on an aircraft from that period before – I wonder of it was unique? (a system with a letter and four numbers followed)
I suspect an enlargement of the badge on the fin will be Blackburn Aircraft.
No idea as to the location I am afraid.
Roger Smith
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June 7, 2011 at 11:00 pm