AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

No.60 Sqn RFC/RAF


The second squadron to use the SE5/5a was No.60 Sqn. For a brief period they had the most colourful of any RFC unit markings when they painted their SE5s in very elaborate (and highly unauthorized) flight markings. This was soon ordered removed and the official marking of a white disc was added.

 


Morane-Saulnier Type N   A186
Lt Duncan Bell-Irving
August 1916
Source: C&C(GB) 12/1


Morane-Saulnier Type N   A173
Lt BM Wainwright
August 1916
Source: C&C(GB) 11/1

 

 


Nieuport 17 A213
Captain Albert Ball
September 1916
Source: FMP VC Book Research


Nieuport 17 B1566
Captain W A Bishop
May 1917
Source: VC Book Research


Nieuport 23 B1575
Lt GAH Parkes
July 1917
Source:

 


RAF SE5
A Flight
August 1917
Source:
updated 2013

RAF SE5 A8898
Captain Keith Caldwell
A Flight
August 1917
Source: Datafile No.30 (SE5)
Revised 2013


RAF SE5
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B Flight
August 1917
Source: Rogers - SE5/5a Sqns

 


RAF SE5 A8936
Capt W A Bishop
C Flight
August 1917
Source: Rogers - SE5/SE5a Sqns

RAF SE5 A4856
Lt Young
August 1917
Source:

RAF SE5a B507
Lt J J Fitzgerald
October 1917
Source:

RAF SE5a D6953
Captain JW Rayner
October 1918
Source:

RAF SE5a D6945


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