GARY L. SMITH COLLECTION
No. 14184. Airco D.H.9A (E8407) Royal Air Force
Photograph from Hawker Siddeley
Aeroplane Photo Supply (APS) Photo 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