Built as an Osprey IIIL. Converted to a Mk IV by fitting a slightly more powerful RR Kestrel V engine in place of the Kestrel IIMS of earlier models. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Reported to have crashed on March 24, 1933, when it hit a ship's mast off Spain. Both crew killed. It had been launched from the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Operated by C flight at RAF Gosport for training Fleet Air Arm pilots. C Flight dealt with deck landings. S1682 was lost in a fatal accident at Gosport in March 21, 1939 when the engine failed on takeoff. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

From the cruiser HMS Sussex which was on a long cruise to the South Pacific in 1934/35. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Osprey ready for launch on the seaplane carrier Gotland. Photo from: Sjöhistoriska Museet

The Osprey was a navalised Hawker Hart, with interchangeable wheels or floats and strengthened for catapulting. 140 Ospreys were built, with Sweden buying six Bristol Pegasus-engined machines to equip the seaplane carrier Gotland. Aircraft 403 wears a lead 2 to indicate F2 wing at Stockholm - Hägernäs. 403 to SE-AYR in 1946. Sank at Saltoluokta in northern Sweden in 1948. Wreck salvaged in 1985. Photo from: Sjöhistoriska Museet