These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a, serial F938, one of only three original British-built SE.5as surviving anywhere in the world — and all three come from the same batch built by Wolseley Motors in Birmingham. Regarded by many pilots as the finest British single-seat fighter of the First World War, the SE.5a combined a powerful 200hp Wolseley Viper engine with exceptional stability and a top speed of around 138 mph, making it a deadly and forgiving platform in the hands of aces such as Mannock, McCudden and Bishop. Its fixed forward-firing Vickers gun and overwing Lewis gun gave it formidable firepower. Built in 1918, F938 arrived too late to see combat before the Armistice. In 1924 it was registered as G-EBIC and joined the Savage Skywriting Company at Hendon — one of a fleet of SE.5as used to write advertising messages in smoke across the skies of Britain and the United States. After its skywriting career ended it passed through various owners before being stored at Brooklands through the Second World War. It was eventually presented to the RAF Museum in 1992, restored in RFC colours, and has been on display in the Grahame-White Factory ever since. Its exact identity is subject to some scholarly debate, as components may have been exchanged with its surviving stablemate now at the Science Museum during their shared skywriting career.