AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

No.66 Sqn RFC/RAF


No.66 Sqn carried a horizontal stripe on their Pups, this was later augamented with a vertical one forward of the fuselage roundel on the Camel. The placement of the a/c letter on Hilborn's Camel is most unusual, and I have yet to see any other 66 Sqn Camel with it in the same location. When No.45 Sqn returned to France in the summer of 1918, one flight of 66 adopted their marking of a dumbbell in an attempt to fool the Austrians into thinking all three Camel squadrons were still in Italy.
Many of 66 Sqn's Pups and Camel had the white of their roundels covered either with paint or dirt

 


Sopwith Pup A6175
2/Lt RS Capon
April 1917
Source: C&C(GB) 19/1


Sopwith Pup A7309
Lt PG Taylor
Summer 1917
Source: Military a/c of Australia
Updated 2013

 

 


Sopwith Pup B2167
2/Lt WC Heathcote
September 1917
Source: L A Rogers

Sopwith Pup B2167
2/Lt WA Pritt
September 1917
Source: Osprey Pup Aces


Sopwith Camel B6424
Lt GA Birks
May 1918
Source:

 

 


Sopwith Camel B5478
Lt A Jerrard
May 1918
Source: FMP VC Book Research

Sopwith Camel E1496?
Lt WC Hilborn
May 1918
Source: Margaret Hilborn Sawyer

Sopwith Camel E7167
2/Lt JM Kelly
Sept-Oct 1918
Source: via LA Rogers
updated 2013