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    Airframe Family: Sopwith Pup
    Latest Model:Pup
    Construction Number:W/O 3004/14
    Last Civil Registration:G-EBKY
    Compressed ID:Sopwith Pup cn W/O 3004/14 cr G-EBK...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade

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    Dates

    Event

    1916

    Constructed as a Pup by Sopwith Aviation Co at Kingston upon Thames.

    Converted to a Dove.
    Two-seat version of Sopwith pup.
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    1 December 1931

    To Richard Shuttleworth with new c/r G-EBKY.

    Converted to a Pup.
    Converted to a single seater (Pup).

    From 11 July 1947 to 24 September 1956

    To Dorothy Shuttleworth keeping c/r G-EBKY.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    25 March 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Shuttleworth Collection displayed their Pup at Old Warden in the Spring of 1973.

    Circa 1981

    To Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    By 1981

    Markings Applied: N5180
    In RFC markings.

    July 1981


    Photographer: JM Bryant
    Notes: Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome (EGTH), Biggleswade, England, UK.

    26 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at a Shuttleworth Flying Day

    26 July 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Markings Applied: 9917
    In the markings of a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) aeroplane, which served on the seaplane carrier HMS Manxman.

    8 April 1993

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-EBKY.

    20 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    21 July 2012


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: RFC 1916 Sopwith Pup 9917/G-EBKY at the Shuttleworth Evening Airshow

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    Simon Hills
    Robert Nichols
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