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    Airframe Family: Sopwith Snipe
    Latest Model:7F.1 (replica) Snipe
    Last Civil Registration:N3765D
    Compressed ID:Sopwith 7F.1 (replica) cr N3765D
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1982

    Constructed as a 7F.1 (replica).
    Built by Richard Day of Colonia, NJ. Powered by a Continental 220-horsepower radial engine and armed with two.303-inch Vickers machine guns.

    10 May 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX3765D (SOPWITH 7F.1, E6837) issued.

    11 December 1982

    To Windward Aviation Inc, Mesa, AZ with new c/r N3765D.

    Markings Applied: E6837

    By 1991

    Placed on display with Champlin Fighter Museum, Falcon Field, Phoenix, AZ.
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    10 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    This airframe represents a Snipe in postwar Royal Air Force service.

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX3765D (SOPWITH 7F.1, E6837) issued.

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo in Museum of Flight at Seattle

    29 October 2014

    Civil registration, N3765D, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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