Aircraft Photo of 664 | Vickers FB-5 Gunbus | UK - Air Force | AirHistory.net #548084
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:664
Aircraft Original Type:Vickers FB-5 Gunbus
Aircraft Generic Type:Vickers FB-5 Gunbus
Aircraft Version:Vickers FB-5 Gunbus
C/n (msn):664
Operator Titles:UK - Air Force
Location
Location:Not known
Region / Country:Unknown Region, United Kingdom
 
Photo Date:1914
Photo from:Don Bennett Collection
Photo ID: 548084
Photo Comment

Serial 664 was the first production standard Vickers FB. 5 Gunbus and this aircraft saw its first action on Christmas Day 1914, when it took off from Joyce Green Airfield, Dartford, Kent, England, to engage a German Friedrichschafen FF29. Seen here with its original semi-circular tailplane probably at Brooklands Airfield, Surrey, England. Scanned from an original (republished) photograph by the Real Photographic Company, Liverpool. From my collection, date, and photographer unknown.

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