GARY L. SMITH COLLECTION
No. 14184. Airco D.H.9A (E8407) Royal Air Force
Photograph from Hawker Siddeley
APS No. 500B (No. 500 was used twice)

Airco D.H.9A

07/31/2023. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The pictured aircraft was the first of 400 aircraft of the first batch of D.H.9As powered by a 400 hp Packard Liberty 12A engine. Ordered on Contract No. 35a/412/C.291 from Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon on March 21, 1918, they had allotted the serials E8407 to E8806."

Read the type remarks on page 8728.


Created July 31, 2023