Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5A

The SE5a was considered by many pilots to be the best British single-seat fighter of World War One - 5205 built.

• F904 - the example at the Shuttleworth Collection was issued to N° 84 Squadron in France in November 1918. This particular plane saw combat  when the squadron commander, Major C.E.M. Pickthorn MC, claimed a Fokker DVII in the vicinity of Chimay (Belgium). After the war it was in the skywriting business and received its civil registration G-EBIA. In 1959 it was restored at RAE Farnborough and flown again. Nowadays it is flown from Old Warden Aerodrome.
  
• F937/'F-939' at the Science Museum, London
  
• F938, on dislay at the RAF Museum Hendon, was delivered
  from August 1918 and is recorded with No 84 Squadron in Eil, Germany in July 1919. During the mid-twenties, it was flown as a skywriting aircraft, G-EBIC with extended asbestos lagged exhaust stacks extending to the tail, giving out white smoke during a demonstration, and received a modified instrument panel and had the pilots' headrest removed. In 1968 it was restored into WW 1 fighter configuration.
  
• F7781/F7783 at the National Museum of Military History, South Africa
  

There are two survivors of the SE 5e series:

• “G-BLXT” - original identity unknown in the collection Flying A services/Wizzard Investments, Greenham Common
  
• “AS-22-325 at the UASF Museum, Dayton, Ohio