Flying replica. Also has the c/n VAFA.01. A founder member of the RAF Museum when it opened in September 1972 and seen here just over a year later. Current in 2022.

Previously G-ATVP which was withdrawn from use in February 1969

On display in the Grahame-White Factory at RAF Museum Hendon.

Though a replica, this is a truly magnificent exhibit in the Grahame-White Factory Exhibition Hall at the Royal Air Force Museum. The type first flew on 17th July 1914 and was a two-seat pusher configuration

The Vickers company began thinking about air-to-air fighting in 1912, and came up with pusher aircraft to avoid firing at one's own propeller. It went wrong in building two-seaters with a flexible gun, however, and the Gunbus, which first flew in July 1914 and first fought a German aircraft on Christmas Day, 1914, was too slow to be an effective fighter. This replica was once airworthy as G-ATVP.