Hi Sandy,
If what you say is accurate then thanks - I stand corrected.
Indeed it was Les Rogers book I 'picked this up' from.
Where did you get your detailed information from?
Mike
Hi Mike
No problem. I recommend the Air-Britain series of "Files". These are available for many British aircraft. For WWI, they cover the SE5, Camel, Pup, DH4/9 and Martinsyde aircraft as well as generic titles on RNAS aircraft, etc.
These contain listings of every batch ordered by Air Ministry, from which supplier, and listing each individual serial with full history of that particular aircraft, its engine, pilots, combats, repairs, struck-off etc. The compilers Ray Sturtivant & Gordon Page have drawn together an incredible amount of detail from all available sources.
(Inevitably some info may be missing. I was recently charting the history, for the local newspaper, of a 1918 presentation SE5a supplied as "Crieff No 2", but could find no record of Crieff No 1 and assumed it must have been a different type. Then a friend on another forum sent me a list of presentation aircraft which included Crieff 1,2 & 3 all SE5as!).
The Files contain these full histories, detailed 1/48 plans, colour profiles and various Appendices. These are the Bibles for the types covered.
I'll scan a couple of pages when I get into the office/den.
PS Also a myriad of WW2 and other types - Lancaster, Hampden, J&K inter-war serials, Hunter, Javelin etc, etc, Search ebay for 'Air Britain File'.
HTH
Sandy