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[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Clint

I use that site myself a lot when it comes to British aircraft but it is no better than the details located.

Lots of details are missing.
I don't know when any of the aircraft in the C batch actually were delivered to RFC/RAF but surely it must have been earlier than Dec 1918?
Anyway I chose C2986, since C2282 was with No 52 Sqn all its active life.
(There is of course the possibillity that the text on the flip side is faulty. After all 5 vs 52 is not an impossible mistake)

1AAP was based in Coventry-Radford while both No 5 and No 52 Sqds were in France, so no obvious connection there.

Also the reasoning behind presentation aircraft in WW 1 and WW 2 were quite different. In WW 1 when a country or individual had paid for an aircraft that aircraft (and its name) should always be in use. So if one aircraft was w/o for any kind of reason, the name was transferred over to another aircraft. During WW 2 the reasoning was different and if an aircraft crashed that name was "gone for ever".

Cheers
Stig