Sopwith Pup - Foreign Users

Note: This post is just a re-arrangement of our first one, the Sopwith Pup in order to cope with the new national -and historical tags - As the drawings aren't new, we haven't announced it through twitter.

The users contained in this post are:

• Australia: The Sopwith Pup equipped the Australian No.5, No.6 and No.8 Training Squadrons and they also equipped the No.1 Flying training School RAAF in the post-war years.
• Belgium: It seems that the Belgian 5éme Escadrille de Chasse employed at least one Sopwith Pup during the World War I.
• Greece: During the First World War some Pups were used by the Hellenic Army Air Service.
• Netherlands: Apparently Netherlands used some airplanes that had crashed inside their borders during the First World War.
• Japan: The Imperial Japanese Air Force used the Pup, both with the army and the navy, where it's known that some of them served aboard the Yamashiro Battleship.
• Romania: Apparently some Pups served with Romania during the First World War.
• Russian Empire: It seems that some Pups were sold to the Imperial Russian air corps.
• Russian SFSR: When the revolution started, with the subsequent civil war, the Bolsheviks employed some captured ex-white Pups.
• USA: It's claimed that the US Navy used some Pups.

Sopwith Pup - British Users

And our first airplane that we present in this blog is this one:

The Sopwith Pup was a British single seater fighter biplane built by the Sopwith Aviation company. It entered active service with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in the autumn of 1916. It enjoyed a very good maneouvrability and was very pleasant to fly, proving to be very successful. It was outclassed by German fighters but, however, it wasn't taken out from active service in the Western Front until the last part of 1917. The remaining airplanes were used for training and Home Defence duties. Thanks to it's great maneouvering characteristics, it was used for carrier take-off and landing experiments.

Some versions of it were made:

• Sopwith Admiralty Type 9901: The RNAS designation
• Sopwith Pup: The unofficial, most famous designation. (The official one was Sopwtih Scout)
• Sopwith Dove: Two seater civilian version
• Alcock Scout: Ad-Hoc version built from scratch using the remains of a crashed Pup.
• Beardmore Type 9901a: The prototype of the Beardmore W.B.III
• Beardmore W.B. III: Shipboard variant designed to fold into the smallest possible volume.