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    Airframe Family: Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5
    Latest Model:SE-5A (replica)
    Last Civil Registration:N910AV
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SE-5A (replica).

    From 1971 to 1988

    Restored.
    The work was started by Bobby Strahlmann, Tom Davis, and Gil Bodine in Florida. It has a Hispano-Suiza 8B water-cooled V-8 power plant along with one.303 Vickers and one.303-caliber Lewis machine gun. Finished in the paint scheme of American ace George Vaughn, who served with the Royal Flying Corps.

    Circa 12 April 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N910AV (SE5A, 0010) issued.

    12 April 1990

    To Windward Aviation Inc, Seattle, WA with c/r N910AV.

    By August 1991

    Placed on display with Champlin Fighter Museum, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    10 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Markings Applied: C6457

    To Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Museum of Flight in Seattle
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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