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    Airframe Family: Sopwith Camel
    Latest Model:Camel F.1
    Last Military Serial:B7280 RAF
    Compressed ID:Sopwith Camel F.1 sn B7280 RAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1917

    Constructed as a Camel F.1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n B7280.

    30 March 1918

    To No. 1 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n B7280.

    1 April 1918

    To No. 201 Squadron.

    12 April 1918

    While piloted by Lt James H. Forman it shot down German Fokker Dr.I near Albert, France.

    9 May 1918

    While piloted by Lt James H. Forman it shot down German Albatros D.V over Bapaume, France.

    By July 1918

    Transferred to No. 210 Squadron.

    16 July 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII over Zeebrugge, Belgium.

    20 July 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII near Ostend, Belgium.

    31 July 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII near Gistel, Belgium.

    1 August 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII near Lille, France.

    6 August 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII near Gistel, Belgium.

    3 September 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it shot down German Fokker D.VII near Roeselare, Belgium.

    5 September 1918

    While piloted by Capt Herbert A. Patey it was shot down over Belgium by German ace, Ludwig Beckmann on Fokker D.VII from Jasta 56. Patey crash-landed on enemy side of front line, his aircraft was captured and later used for tests by the Germans.

    By 1936

    Placed on display with Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung, Berlin, Berlin.
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    1943

    Transported by rail
    Due to frequent bombardments of Berlin evacuated to eastern Germany.

    1945

    Captured near village of Hammer (now Kuznica Czarnkowska) by the Polish Army together with some two dozens of other airplanes from the Berlin collection. They were in poor condition, most did not have wings. Some have been cut up with axes and hacksaws, probably during hasty evacuation from Berlin the planes were adjusted in size to fit into rail wagons.

    From 1945 to 1963

    Stored in various places in Poland.

    1963

    To Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    Restored.

    19 June 2012


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: 2012 photo at Krakow Air Museum

    4 November 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.

    9 May 2023


    Photographer: Christopher Gresham

    9 May 2023


    Photographer: Christopher Gresham
    Notes: The bomb rack may be significant, please delete if not so.


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    Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
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    Marcin Rogowski
    John Yates

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