A Blackburn Baffin aircraft, Serial S1573, converted from a Blackburn Ripon II landing on board ...

Accession Number A04365
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film polyester negative
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A Blackburn Baffin aircraft, Serial S1573, converted from a Blackburn Ripon II landing on board HMAS Courageous while serving with No 810 Squadron, (code numbers for No 810 Squadron were 524) Fleet Air Arm in the mid 1930s. In November 1937, the aircraft arrived by merchant ship in New Zealand for service with the Royal New Zealand Air Force until 1940.