If this is a case of Swaping the A/C due to lack of funds, then why not offer the A/C concerned to UK based company’s in exchange for the A/C required??? As others have said there is more than enough skill base in the UK. Dont get me wrong, TVAL do a super job but they are not the B all and end all of WW1 A/C reproduction. The UK has a huge skill base that would be glad of the work.
As far as the RAFM restoration staff go i am sure that they are more than capable as work they have allready done shows, the loverly Dolphin a case in point. They are however only human and can only do so much, because A/C are in store does not mean they canot restore them, just that they havent got to them yet!!
As for the original question of whether or not the Snipe or RE8 would fly in the UK? A small matter of the correct airworthiness paperwork would I think put paid to that!
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