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    Airframe Family: Royal Aircraft Factory RE-8
    Latest Model:RE-8
    Last Military Serial:A3930 RFC
    Construction Number:0002 Replica
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-TVC
    Compressed ID:Royal Aircraft Factory RE-8 sn A393...
    Latest Owner or Location:RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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    Constructed as a RE-8.
    This flying replica, in No. 9 Squadron colours, individual code B, was built in New Zealand by Wellington-based The Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL) in 2011, (constructors number 0002) using original RE.8 rudder, wing and fuselage parts held by the RAF Museum as patterns. These parts of an unidentified airframe were found in a Coventry garage in 1966 and recovered by the Northern Aircraft PreservationSociety.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Flying Corps with s/n A3930.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-TVC.

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    Markings Applied: A3930 B
    Nr. 9 Sqdrn c/s. No. IX Squadron flew the R.E.8 on the Western Front from May 1917 onwards, concentrating on corps reconnaissance duties, being engaged in artillery spotting and tactical reconnaissance, and contact patrols during the Battle of Passchendaele, during which it suffered 57 casualties.

    9 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At RAF Museum Hendon, UK

    9 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost

    9 March 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: More details at https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/X006-0350-RE-8-(Replica)- percent 27A3930 percent 27.pdf
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