The French use of the Cocadre (Cockade) dates to the Revolution and so was an obvious marking for the Republic. The British adopted the Red/ White (St George) roundel after the Union Jack presented recognition difficulties and then added the blue part of our national colours, The colours were then reversed so as not to be the same as the French.
John
An early Constellation, A Nord Noralpha and three pics of a Toucan.
John
Hi,
Can anyone help with a close up photograph of the tailwheel assembly and stern post mountings on a Rapide. This is to help with the Comet project as I want to compare it to the assembly used on G-ACSS. So far it looks to me that the Shuttleworth aeroplane has an extended tailwheel assembly possibly to lower the nose slightly on the ground, this is based on camparing it to old photographs.Hope someone can help. many thanks
Ken
This help?


Hello Planemike.
I have number 65 here on my library shelf and I may have No 57 ( all the other “50s” are here) and I do have a number of mags at my workshop to sort out.
John
Reversed, yes, the sergeant’s stripes are upside down. 😉
Mark
As we used to say “The arrows point to where ones brains are”. :rolleyes:
John
I am slowly starting to recover from our house move and am able to start devoting a little time to finishing the project off. This is where we currently stand, as ever any comments/corrections/additions welcomed:
BRITISH DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
DH4
N489 NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio (composite of two aircraft)
652 The Aviation Heritage Center, Omaka, Blenheim , New Zealand
N3258 Evergreen Museum, McMinnville, Oregon (loaned from Museum of Flight, Seattle)
21959 National Air & Space Museum, US
???? National Museum of the US Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia (part original)
???? Kermit Weeks – 4 No????
???? San Diego Air and Space Museum
???? Peter JacksonNote – DH4s still to be disaggregated by type
DH9
DH9
F1258 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (high degree of originality)
F1287 Canberra, ACT, Australia
D5649 Aero-Vintage Ltd, St Leonards-on-Sea for IWM
E8894 Aero-Vintage Ltd, St Leonards-on-Sea for HAC Duxford
????? Fort Bikaner, India
????? South Africa Museum of Military History???DH9A
F1010 RAFM Hendon (rebuilt from partial remains)Avro 504
ex-504J
B3182 Weeks Air Museum, Miami504K
E448 Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum of Central Finland), Tikkakoski
‘E449’ RAFM Hendon
H2453 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
H2174 Australian War Museum, Canberra
‘H2311’ Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
H5199 Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
D7560 Science Museum, London
D8971 RCAF, CFB Borden
D9029 NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio
‘ZK-ACU’ Stuart Tantrum, Blenheim, New Zealand
????? Norwegian Aviation Centre, Bødo504L
‘G-EASD’ Tony Ditherage? (assembled by Eastbourne Aviation in 1920 from surplus components)BAT F.K.23 Bantam Mk.1
K-123 Aviodrome, Leystadt
Bristol F2B
‘E2466’ RAFM, Hendon (rebuild on original fuselage frame)
E2581 IWM, Duxford
D7889 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe (rebuild using substantial original components on original fuselage frame)
‘D8084’ Peter Jackson, New Zealand (rebuild on original fuselage frame)
D8096 Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
‘J8264’ Brussels Aviation Museum (rebuild on original fuselage frame)
“AB21” Museo del Aire, Madrid
????? Peter Jackson, New Zealand (fuselage frame only)
????? Vintage Aviation Historical Foundation, Kingsbury, Texas (incomplete)Bristol M1C
C5001 Captain Harry Butler Memorial, Minlanton, South Australia (composite of two aircraft C4964 & C5001)
Felixstowe F5L
A-3882 NASM, Silver Hill, Maryland (Hull only – built as display exhibit, original)
Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard
MA-24 Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum of Central Finland), Tikkakoski
BE2
BE2c
2699 IWM Lambeth
5878 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
9969 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (high degree of originality)BE2e
A1325 Peter Jackson, New Zealand
F1380 Gardermoen Museum, Nr OsloRE8
F3558 IWM, Duxford (good degree of originality)
A4719 Brussels Aviation MuseumFE2b
No Serial RAFM, Safford (being constructed around original, unused, nacelle)
SE5
SE5A
C1916 Canberra, ACT, Australia
F904 Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
F937/’F-939′ Science Museum, London
F938 RAFM Hendon
F7781/F7783 National Museum of Military History, South AfricaSE5E (Eberhart):
“G-BLXT” (original identity?) Flying A services/Wizzard Investments, Greenham Common
“AS-22-325 NMUSAF, Dayton, OhioShort 184
8359 FAA Museum, Yeovilton (incomplete but highly original)
Sopwith Baby
‘N2078’ FAA Museum, Yeovilton (composite of 8214 & 8215)
Sopwith 1½ Strutter
1263 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
2897 Mémorial Flight Association, Cerny/La ferté Alais
S86 Brussels Aviation Museum
???? Kermit Weeks, Polk City, Florida (incomplete?)Sopwith Pup
Original Pup:
B1807 Kelvin Baker, Winchcombe? (incomplete)
N5182 RAFM Hendon (rebuilt around substantial original components)
N5195 Museum of Army Flying, Middle WallopConverted Dove:
‘9917’ Shuttleworth Collection, Old WardenSopwith Triplane
N5486 The Aviation Museum, Monio, Moscow
N5912 RAFM HendonSopwith Camel
F1:
B5747 Brussels Air Museum
F6314 RAFM Hendon
B6291 Al Letcher, Mojave, California (now sold?)
B7280 Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (incomplete)
“N6254” D&R Holbert, Aerospace, Little Rock, Arkansas2F1:
N6812 IWM Lambeth
N8156 Canadian Aviation Museum, RockcliffeSopwith Dolphin
D5329 RAFM Cosford (restoration incorporating little original material, in Michael Beetham Conservation Centre)
Sopwith Snipe
E6938 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
E8102 Canadian War Museum, Ottawa (Fuselage only but high degree of originality)
E8105 NASM, Smithsonian, WashingtonVickers Vimy
F8630 Adelaide Airport (repaired after fire damage)
BAPC.51(no serial No) Science Museum London (high degree of originality)No Known Survivors (250+ Built)
DH2 (450 built)
DH5 (350 built)
DH6 (2,950 built)
Bristol Scout (381 built)
Handley Page O/400 (661 built)
Martinsyde G100/G102 (271 built)
FE8 (295 built)
BE12 (600 built)
Vickers FB5/FB9 (309 built)FRENCH DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Blériot XI
c/n1? Musée des arts et métiers, Paris
c/n 14 Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
c/n 16 Svedinos Bil-och Flygmuseum, Ugglarp, Sweden (Thulin built, under restoration from fuselage only)
c/n 56 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State (rebuilt from partial fuselage remains)
c/n 82 Mikael Carlson, Löberöd, Sweden (Thulin built – “95% original”)
c/n 153 On loan to Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York State
c/n 164 RAFM Hendon
c/n 246 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
c/n 686 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
L611 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
n/a NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio (privately built in period from factory drawings)
n/a Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe (privately built in period from factory drawings, fuselage only?)
n/a Svenska Tekniska Museet (modified Nyrop built version)
n/a The Collings Foundation, Stowe, Massachusetts (US built example, fitted with modern engine)
???? NASM, Smithsonian, Washington D.C
???? Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State (American Aeroplane Supply House built)
???? Brussels Aviation Museum (constructed around original pair of wings only)
???? US Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Alabama
???? Museo del Aire, Madrid (Vilanova built)
???? Verkehrshaus, Lucerne
???? Deutsches Museum, Munich
???? San Diego Aerospace Museum
???? New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, Connecticut
???? Mikael Carlson, Löberöd, Sweden (Thulin built)
???? Norsk Teknisk Museum, OsloBreguet III
B1 Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping (rebuilt from crash wreck)
Breguet XIV A2
2016 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
3C30 Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum of Central Finland), TikkakoskiCaudron G III
324 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
640 Museu Aeroespacial (Brazilian Air Force Museum) Rio de Janeiro
2531 Brussels Air Museum
3066 RAFM Hendon
1E18 Hallinportti Ilmailumuseo (Halli Aviation Museum), Finland
???? Historic Flight, VenezuelaCaudron G IV
1720 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
4262/2170 NASM, Washington DullesFBA Type B
203/N.2 Museu de Marinha, Lisbon (composite of N.1 and N.2)
Schreck FBA Type H
55 Brussels Aviation Museum
Hanriot HD 1
75 RAFM Hendon
78 Brussels Air Museum
515 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
653? Fliegermuseum, Duebendorf
5934 Planes of Fame, Chino, California
???? Ecuadorian Air Force Museum, Quito (poor and non-authentic condition)Maurice Farman S.7 Longhorn
‘1’ Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo
???? Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
???? Kotsu Transportation Museum, TokyoMaurice Farman S.11 Shorthorn
266 National Science Museum, Tokyo
‘CFS-20’ RAAF Museum, Point Cook, Victoria (Composite of three aircraft, with 70% new)
‘VH-UBC’ Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
???? Brussels Air Museum
???? JMSDF, in store at Hamamatsu Airbase?Maurice Farman HF 20
???? Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
Moraine-Saulnier AI
1567 Mémorial Flight Association, Cerny/La ferté Alais (Type XXIX)
1573 Kermit Weeks, Polk City, Florida
2283 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (reserve collection)
???? Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State
???? Museo Aeronautico, Montevideo (is it still in existence – major fire in 1998?)Moraine-Saulnier BB
A301 RAFM Stafford (incomplete – fuselage & undercarriage)
Nieuport IV.G
M1 Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping
Nieuport 10
1467 Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica, Milan
Nieuport 83
???? Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State
Nieuport XI C.1
556 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
Nieuport 12 A.2
1504 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
Nieuport 23 C.1
5024 Brussels Air Museum
Nieuport 28 C.1
14 Museum of Flight, Seattle
607 Fliegermuseum, Duebendorf
688 Verkehrshaus, Lucerne
6169 San Diego Air & Space Museum (constructed from composite of original parts)
6531 US Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Alabama
‘N4123A’ NASM, Washington Dulles (composite of at least five aircraft: 6497, 7103, 7226, 6465 & 6432)
???? Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica, Argentina (incomplete crash wreck)Salmson 2A2
???? Kakamigara Aerospace Museum, Japan (small part of fuselage only – post war Japanese Otsu built example)
Spad VII C1
S153 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
S248 Louis Blériot, GPPA, Angers (under restoration)
S254 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (high degree of originality)
S1420 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle (high degree of originality)
B9913 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe (note shares identity with VAM example, little original material remaining and contains inaccuracies in its construction)
B9913 Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia (note shares identity with CAM example, built from parts left over from CAM example’s restoration, again contains little original material but better built than CAM example, original woodwork now sold on again, in Arlington, Washington State)
B9914 Kermit Weeks, (incomplete aircraft, wrecked by storm damage, now under rebuild)
B9916 San Diego Aviation Museum
S11583 Vojenske Muzeum (Czech Aviation Museum), Kbely
AS94099 NMUSAF, Dayton, OhioSpad XIII C1
SP49 Brussels Air Museum
S4377 Mémorial Flight Association, Cerny/La ferté Alais
S5295 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
S7689 NASM, Smithsonian, Washington
16594 NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio
????? Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle (restored as Spad VII)
????? Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle (“remains” – how complete? In store)
????? Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (fuselage and wings – in store)Spad XVI
AS9392 NASM, Washington Dulles
Voisin L.A.5
V955 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
???? Brussels Air Museum (incomplete)
???? The Aviation Museum, Monio, MoscowVoisin VIII
4640 NASM, Smithsonian, Washington
Voisin X Ca2
??? Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (fuselage pod only, reserve collection)
No Known Survivors (250+ Built)
Dorand AR.1/AR.2 (??? built)
Moraine-Saulnier L/LA (600+ built)
Moraine-Saulnier P (565 built)
Nieuport 17C.1 (1,000+ built?)
Nieuport 24/27 (??? built)
Nieuport-Delage 29C.1 (??? built)GERMAN DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
AEG G.IV
574/18 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
Albatros B.I
20.01 Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Army Museum), Vienna
Albatros B.II
‘L30’ Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow
756 Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping (built in 1925 by FVM in Sweden)Albatros D.Va
5390/17 Australian War Museum, Canberra
7161/17 NASM, Smithsonian, Washington DCDFW C.V
17077/17 Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow
Fokker E.III
210/16 Science Museum, London (highly original but canvas stripped)
Fokker D.III
Serial number not known? Vienna Technical Museum
Fokker D.VII
2523/18 Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
‘4404/18’ Deutsches Museum, Munich (Modified post-war Dutch build)
4635/18 NASM, Smithsonian, Washington DC
6796/18 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
6810/18 Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec (high degree of originality)
8417/18 RAFM Hendon
10347/18 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe (kit of parts under restoration)Fokker E.V/D.VII
????/18 Museo Gianni Caproni, Trento (fuselage & engine only, under restoration)
Halberstadt CL.II
15459/17 Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (incomplete)
Halberstadt CL.IV
8103/18 Deutsches Museum, Munich
‘D-4’ Deutches Auto-Museum, Schloss Langenberg
8103/18 NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio (rebuilt in conjunction with other two survivors)
8130/18 NASM, Washington Dulles (assembled from original parts around original fuselage)
???? Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin (assembled from original parts around original fuselage)Halberstadt C.V
3471/18 Brussels Aviation Museum (high degree of originality)
Junkers J.1
586/18 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
Junkers J.7 (D.1)
5929/18 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris
LVG C.VI
3141/18 Brussels Aviation Museum
7198/18 RAFM, Cosford (Michael Beetham Conservation Centre)
9041/18 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris (currently under restoration by the Mémorial Flight Association)Pfalz D.X11
2558/18 or 2630/18 or 2740/18 NASM, Smithsonian, Washington DC
2558/18 or 2630/18 or 2740/18 Seattle Museum of Flight
2600/18 AWM Canberra
2690/18 Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, ParisRoland D.VIb
2225/18 Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (incomplete)
Rumpler C.IV
310/17 Deutsches Museum, Munich
Rumpler 6B
???? Hallinportti Ilmailumuseo (Halli Aviation Museum), Finland
Siemens-Schuckhert D.IV
[10114] Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (incomplete & converted into Albatross H.1)
No Known Survivors (250+ Built)
AEG C.IV (400 built)
Albatross D.II?
Albatross D.III
Fokker Dr.1 (318 built)
Hannover CL.III/CL.IIIa (617 built)
Pfalz D.III (c1075 built)
Roland D.II ??AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Aviatik Berg D.I
101.37 Vienna Technical Museum (high degree of originality)
101.40 Museum of Flight, SeattleAviatik C.I
C.227/16 Brussels Aviation Museum (incomplete)
Aviatik C.III
???? Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (incomplete)
Etrich Taube/Rumpler Taube
‘A108/14’/A118/13 Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin
???? Vienna Technical Museum (Technisches Museum)
???? Luftwaffenmuseum, Berlin
???? Flugmuseum Aviaticum, Wiener Neustadt
???? Deutsches Museum, Munich
???? Norsk Teknisk Museum, on display at Forsvarets Flysamling, Gardermoen
???? Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow (unrestored)Knoller C.II
119.15 Nerodni Tecnické Museum, Prague
Hansa-Brandenburg D1
28.68 Nerodni Tecnické Museum, Prague (fuselage only)
10.21 Vojenske Muzeum (Czech Aviation Museum), Kbely (post war Aero Ae-10 – how genuine is this example?)Hansa Brandenburg B.I
???? Budapest Aviation Museum
Hansa Brandenburg W.33
4.D.2 Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Finnish Air Museum), Vantaa (post war Finnish built IVL A.22, licence built to modified design)
Lloyd Prototype
40.01 Budapest Transport Museum
Lohner L-1
L-127 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
Phönix D.III
947 Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping
ITALIAN DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Ansaldo A 1 “Balilla”
MM16553 Museo del Risorgimento e del comune di Bergamo (under restoration by GAVS in Turin)
Ansaldo SVA-5
11721 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
11777 Museo Gianni Caproni, Trento
????? ?, Peru (rebuilt (poorly) following crash – how genuine is this?)Ansaldo SVA-9
13148 Aeritalia
Ansaldo SVA-10
12736 Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riveria
13164 Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica, Argentina (existence to be confirmed)Caproni Ca.3
1 Museo Storico dell’ Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Vigna di Valle
Caproni Ca.20
23174 Museum of Flight, Seattle (high degree of originality)
Caproni Ca.36
2378 Museo Aeronautica Caproni di Taliedo, on loan to NMUSAF, Dayton, Ohio
Macchi M.7
945 Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping
MEXICAN DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
TNCA Type H
???? Mexican Air Force Collection
RUSSIAN DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Anatra Anasalj
010.091 Nerodni Tecnické Museum, Prague
Grigorovich M-5
???? Turkish Air Force Museum, Izmar
Grigorovich M-15
???? Narodowe Muzeum Lotnictw (Polish Aviation Museum), Krakow
SWEDISH DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Thulin typ D
F1 Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum of Central Finland), Tikkakoski (partial replica based around original fuselage)
Thulin typ G
G 11-15 Under restoration at Flygvapenmuseum (Swedish Air Force Museum), Linköping
Thulin typ N
?? Svenska Tekniska Museet, Stockholm
US DESIGNED AIRCRAFT
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny
JN-4C
C227 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
C308 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas
C496 Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis
C1122 Skeeter Carlson, Spokane, Washington State (high degree of originality)
1898 ????
4048 Anthony Morozowsky, Zanesville, Ohio (serial number indicates a JN-4D?)
10875 John Shue, York, Pennsylvania
39158 National Air Museum?
56618 ???? [CHECK IF GENUINE]
‘C-AAI’ Reynolds-Alberta Museum, (“80 % genuine”)
???? Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York State (barn find restoration)
???? Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works & Flying Museum, Guelph, OntarioJN-4D
D-51 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California (displayed with canvas stripped)
278 Sold to??
396 San Diego Aerospace Museum
400??? James Smith, Fortine, Montana
450 Kenneth Hyde, on loan to Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia
490 Sold to?? [CHECK IF GENUINE]
A995 US Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida
A996 Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
1321 Franklin Root, Staunton, Virginia
1350 Warp Pioneer Villiage Museum, Minden, Nebraska
2421 Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (question mark whether this is genuine or a replica)
2525 owner unknown, Indiana
2780 US Museum of Army Aviation, Ozark, Alabama
2805 NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio
2844 ????
3233 ????
3229 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas [DUPLICATE?]
3712 Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington State
3973 John Johnson, Edmonton, Alberta
4904 EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (composite of parts including wing from 5357 and JN-4A fuselage parts)
4983 NASM, Washington Dulles
5002 Hill Aerospace Museum, Utah (rebuilt)
5086 Glenn H Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York (under restoration)
5360 Kermit Weeks, Polk City, Florida (very original but badly damaged)
5361 Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
6062 Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
8047 Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
33779 Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
34091 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California?
34094 Owls Head Transportation Museum, Maine
???? Museum of Flight, Seattle (little original material remaining)
???? US Army Center for Military History, on loan to College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, Maryland (barn find restoration)
???? Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
???? Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California – also have a third example?JN-4H
3919 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State (composite aircraft)
8644 Frank Schelling, Schellville, CaliforniaJN-4HG
A4160 National Museum of the US Marine Corps, Quantico, VirginiaYet to classify:
???? ex-Gene Frank (2 No. kits of parts)
???? Aero Vintage Ltd, currently at AJD Engineering, Sudbury
???? Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, California
???? Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
???? Fairbanks International Airport, Alaska
???? Denver International AirportCurtiss NC-4
A2294 NASM, on loan to US Museum of Naval Aviation. Pensacola, Florida
Curtiss N-9H
???? NASM, Washington Dulles
LWF Model F Tractor
4 Nerodni Tecnické Museum, Prague
Packard Lepere Lusac
42133 NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio
Standard J1
581 Owls Head Transportation Museum, Maine
1000 James Hammond, Yellow Springs, Ohio
1141 NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio
1582 Kermit Weeks, Polk City Florida (composite of two aircraft)
1598 ????
1956 EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
2969 Michael Cilurso, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania (assembled from original components – period kit)
4598 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas
‘N62505’ Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis
???? NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio (incomplete)
???? Henry Ford Museum, on loan to Glenn H Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York
???? Golden Age Air Museum Bethel, Pennsylvania (off site under restoration)Lincoln Standard HS
N1375 NASM, Washington DullesStandard E1
49128 Kermit Weeks, Polk City Florida
???? Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, VirginiaThomas-Morse S4 Scout
S4B
4328 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York StateS4C
38898 Skeeter Carlson, Spokane, Washington State
38923 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas
38944 NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio
???? Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York State
???? Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas (fuselage & engine only?)
Doesn’t the RAF Museum have a Farman F.40 (at least the fuselage pod and engine) in store?
John
The prop in your photo is reversed and if the photo has not been reversed then the “BE.2” replica being admired by the 1960s Chief Techs has been fitted with a “gash” prop.
The props on the BE2c and RE.8 are different but both rotate clockwise when viewed from the front.
John
This prop blade was washed up on the beach at New Brighton Wirral, during WW2 and spent years hanging up in a scout hut before going into storage in an attic. Last year’s dig on a Spitfire which crashed in Birkenhead Park after losing its prop, jogged a local scout master’s memory. Perhaps he had part of the evidence? However, I think it looks too small to be from a Spit and the sheathed tip is very un-Spitfire like. Maybe from a Master or even a pre-war type from RAF Sealand, although it doesn’t look like it was in the water for very long. Suggestions on ID will be welcomed!
The prop will be presented to the Warplane Wreck Museum at Fort Perch, New Brighton, where the Spit parts are on display.
Looks very much like a blade off an RE.8, certainly WW.1
John
Dear John
I have a bit more information about another Master crash at Westood. I just got hold of “Wings over Westwood” by Graham Simons. In it he quotes:
19/8/43 T8659 Master “Engine failed … Pilot bailed out, but aircraft hit house in Priory Road”
As my grandfather lived in Priory Road it is likely this is the aircraft friom which he recovered a few pieces, that are now lost:
During the war I remember my grandfather showing me a bit of an aircraft that had apparently crashed in or near his garden As I was very little then I cannot remember what bit it was, nor where it went.Clearly not the case to which your refer. Yours could be the Master that crashed during night flying on 5/5/44
Hello Ian
I missed your reply and as I have been moving house my library has been packed in boxes. I have now found the original notes (tucked into the pages of a book). My crash was 20/06/1944, Pilot P/O RA Jones, from No7 A.P.S Crashed soon after takeoff from Westwood at 02.20. Pilot killed and a/c (Master Mk.II AZ262) burnt out. Surface debris and pilots remains removed at the time but the engine, prop and under-carriage and other components not recovered until the early 70’s? Also recovered was a flying boot containing remains which led to a coroners inquiry. The wreckage was removed to an M/t garage at RAF Wittering and at least the prop was obtained by one of the painters and dopers (Mick, who I believe now runs an a/c paint finishing company) and went to the museum at the railway yard at Tattershall near Coningsby. The engine a Bristol Mercury XX narrowed the possible types down but the clincher was a small piece of fretted wood which I recognised as part of the front fuselage structure of a Master. Records of Master crashes at Peterborough soon came up with the rest of the details.
Regards
John
I can’t help you with your enquiry I’m afraid, but must congratulate you on an amazingly thought out and researched website, it’s very useful for general second world war airfield info aswel.
Davidstow is an amazing place, and I love just sitting out there on a quiet summers evening, immagining what it was like in 1944.
For anyone who hasn’t been there, it is truely worth a visit, as it is unrestored and has not been developed in anyway.
I must agree, what a splendid site. Well done. One question though, do you not have photographs of any of the aircraft which operated from Davidstow.
John
This may help. The lower pic is the Airfix kit GR.1 XV788 Originally “M” later 11. This photo was taken before she left for Belize and a watery grave off the Keys.
John


Try this for a history of the Wakefield Cup which since 1927 has been the Trophy for International Free flight high performance rubber powered models. Go to the entry marked E Twinning, it will be of interest.
John
Does anyone have any photographs, or indeed any information, about the RAF station at Peterborough (Westwood)? I used to hang around there in the 1950s and have a few photographs of the various Austers, Tiger Moths, Messengers etc that used it. But I have no pictures of it from any other source.
The old Officers Mess at Westwood became a teachers training college as my first wife trained there. Whilst I was at RAF Wittering in the 70’s, they were building one of the many housing estates on the fringes of Peterborough a digger revealed some aircraft wreckage containing some human remains. I helped identify some of the parts as a Miles Master Mk.II which had been crashed on a night flying exercise by a P/O AH Jones. I still have a yellow paint fragment from this a/c. Somewhere I have a small booklet about RAF Westwood which was published a few years ago.
John
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Who makes the Blackburn Botha ??? – certainly not Airfix ?? :confused:
Ken – Who is still an ‘Airfixer’ – in the same way as I still vacuum with a Hoover and write with a Biro.
My models at :- http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/models_pages/modl_home.htm
The Botha was a vacform by Contrail.
John
This is the Cosford one, looking immaculate
But I believe fitted with Spitfire main wheels!
John