File:Replica Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a ‘F5475 A’ -BAPC250- (50428557212).jpg

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c/n unknown Built 1996 as a static replica of a 1918 aeroplane and allocated the British Aircraft Preservation Council identity BAPC354. Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, UK 20th August 2020

The following information is from the Brooklands Museum website:-

“Designed by H.P. Folland in World War One (WWI) at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, the SE5a was a highly successful fighter with the Royal Flying Corps (later the Royal Air Force). Besides production at Farnborough, SE5as were built under licence elsewhere - including 1,650 produced by Vickers Aviation Ltd at Brooklands. Early models were fitted with Hispano-Suiza engines but the Wolseley Viper became the standard powerplant in 1918. When WWI ended, the SE5a was in service with 20 British squadrons, but very few examples now survive out of a total of 5,205 built between 1917 and 1919.

This is a non-flyable replica (identified as BAPC 250) built in 1994-96 by volunteers at Brooklands Museum. The aeroplane it represents (serial no. F5475) was originally built by Vickers in 1918 as a presentation aeroplane funded by the 1st Reserve Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company. After being photographed at its Brooklands birthplace, F5475 was delivered to the RAF at Droglandt South in Flanders on 24/9/1918 and joined 41 Squadron over the Western Front. The aeroplane was usually flown by Lt. Frederick McGraw and survived the war to return to England in Spring 1919."
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Source Replica Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a ‘F5475 / A’ [BAPC250]
Author Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location51° 21′ 18.12″ N, 0° 27′ 52.1″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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