Canadian Museum of Flight to build and fly Pup replica in 18 months

A Sopwith Pup replica at the Shuttleworth Collection Summer Air Display. (Photo Geoff Collins (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

A Sopwith Pup replica at the Shuttleworth Collection Summer Air Display. (Photo Geoff Collins (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

The Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley has agreed to provide a replica of a Sopwith Pup for the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle of Vimy Ridge. They have 18 months to build one from scratch, then get it flight-tested and certified so that it can join other WWI replicas to commemorate the April 1917 battle.

Read the full article on the Air Museum Network.

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