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    Airframe Family: Sopwith Triplane
    Latest Model:Triplane (replica)
    Construction Number:NAW-1
    Last Civil Registration:G-BOCK
    Compressed ID:Sopwith Triplane (replica) cn NAW-1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Triplane (replica).
    This reproduction aircraft was built entirely by volunteer members of Northern Aeroplane Workshops

    26 January 1988

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees OLD Warden Aerodrome OLD Warden Biggleswade SG18 9ER with new c/r G-BOCK.

    1990

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    10 April 1992

    First flight.

    Markings Applied: N6290, Dixie II
    RNAS.

    8 April 1993

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade with new c/r G-BOCK.

    21 July 2012


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: RNAS 8Sqn 1916 Sopwith Triplane Dixie II (Replica) N6290/G-BOCK at the Shuttleworth Evening Airshow - 21st July 2012. This aircraft was built by Northern Aircraft Workshops in 1980, first flight 1992. It has a Clerget Rotary 9B engine.

    3 December 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: With the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden
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