Sopwith Aviation Company (1680 bytes)
1: ...itary in the first world war, most famously the [[Sopwith Camel]].
3: ...n 16,000 aircraft and employed 5,000 people. The company folded in [[1920]] as a consequence of the drop i...
5: ...pany produced the [[Sopwith Cuckoo|Cuckoo]] and [[Sopwith Salamander|Salamander]], but these were too late ...
7: ...], forerunner of the [[Hawker-Siddeley]] Aviation company which produced many famous fighter aircraft, incl...

Republic Aviation Company (619 bytes)
1: ... company was reorganized as the Republic Aviation Company.
5: The company was acquired by [[Fairchild]] in [[1965]].

Sopwith Salamander (277 bytes)
1: ...first built in [[1918]] by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]]. A total of 419 were built. The war ended befor...

Sopwith Camel (3393 bytes)
2: ...3" align="center" style="border-bottom:3px solid"|Sopwith Camel
4: ...mage:Sopwith_Camel.jpg]]<br>''Modern replica of a Sopwith Camel''
16: |Manufacturer||colspan="2"|Sopwith Aviation Company
74: ...first built in [[1916]] by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]]. Approximately 6,000 Camels were produced. It f...
76: ...de it more agile. This agility in combat made the Sopwith Camel one of the best remembered [[Allies|Allied]...

Sopwith Cuckoo (3757 bytes)
2: ...3" align="center" style="border-bottom:3px solid"|Sopwith Cuckoo
4: ...e:Sopwith Cuckoo.jpg|200px|Sopwith Cuckoo ]]<br>''Sopwith Cuckoo''
68: ...tter known for making the [[Sopwith Camel]] and [[Sopwith Pup]]. Though the ''Cuckoo'' would also prove to...

Sopwith 1½ Strutter (3426 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sopwith Strutter.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sopwith 1½ Strutter]]
3: The '''Sopwith 1½ Strutter''' was a [[United Kingdom|British]] o...
5: Designed by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]], the 1½ Strutter was so [[nickname]]d because t...
9: ...first aircraft entered service in April [[1916 in aviation|1916]]. A single-seat bomber version was also bu...
11: ...t great British [[dog fight]]er of the war, the [[Sopwith Pup]], was essentially a scaled-down, single-seat...

Sopwith Snipe (5490 bytes)
2: ...3" align="center" style="border-bottom:3px solid"|Sopwith Snipe
72: ...AF), designed and built by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]] during the [[World War I|First World War]] and ...
74: ...arguably Sopwith's most famous aeroplane, the ''[[Sopwith Camel]]'', which had performed remarkbly well dur...
80: ... phased out of RAF service and by [[1926]], the ''Sopwith Snipe's'' career with the RAF was over.
82: ==Squadrons that operated the Sopwith Snipe==

Thomas Sopwith (2791 bytes)
1: ...7]], [[1989]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[aviation]] pioneer as well as a celebrated yachtsman.
3: Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith was born in [[Kensington]], [[London]]. He was t...
5: ...nd on November 22 was awarded [[Royal Aero Club]] Aviation Certificate No 31.
7: ...rs 40 minutes. He used the winnings to set up the Sopwith School of Flying at Brooklands.
9: ...] aircraft, most famously the [[Sopwith Camel]]. Sopwith was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE...

Sopwith Pup (3338 bytes)
2: ...3" align="center" style="border-bottom:3px solid"|Sopwith Pup
16: |Manufacturer||colspan="2"|Sopwith
80: ...t looked like a smaller version of the two-seat [[Sopwith 1½ Strutter]].
84: ...ron against [[Zeppelin]]s. On August 2nd 1917, a Sopwith Pup flown by Sqn Cdr Edwin Dunning became the fir...
86: The Pup was based on the personal plane of Sopwith's chief test pilot [[Harry Hawker]]. The Pup was...

Sopwith Triplane (1017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Sopwith_Triplane_in_Russland.jpg|thumb|Sopwith Triplane]]
2: [[de:Sopwith Triplane]]
4: ...]]. It was manufactured by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]] and was nicknamed the ''Tripe'' or the ''Tripeh...
6: Introduced in November [[1916]] the Sopwith Triplane was flown by the [[Royal Naval Air Servi...
8: ...nes were withdrawn from service and replaced by [[Sopwith Camel]]s.

Sopwith Tabloid (3785 bytes)
1: ...f the first to be built by the [[Sopwith Aviation Company]]. Named the "[[Tabloid]]" because of its small ...
3: ...l Tabloid, which first flew in November [[1913 in aviation|1913]], was a two-seater with a side-by-side conf...
5: ...ge:Sopwith Schneider.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The '''Sopwith Schneider''', piloted by Howard Pixton, at the 19...
7: ...1914]], a version of the Tabloid, known as the '''Sopwith Schneider''', equipped with floats and powered by...
11: ...lying from [[Antwerp]] on [[8 October]] [[1914 in aviation|1914]], raided the German [[Zeppelin]] sheds at [...

Aviation (3801 bytes)
2: '''Aviation''' or '''Air transport''' refers to the activitie...
3: Aviation can be broadly divided into three areas:
5: * Commercial Aviation
6: * [[General Aviation]]
7: * [[Military Aviation]]

1917 in aviation (3485 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1912 in aviation|1912]]
6: |align=center|[[1913 in aviation|1913]]
8: |align=center|[[1914 in aviation|1914]]
10: |align=center|[[1915 in aviation|1915]]

1916 in aviation (5236 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1911 in aviation|1911]]
6: |align=center|[[1912 in aviation|1912]]
8: |align=center|[[1913 in aviation|1913]]
10: |align=center|[[1914 in aviation|1914]]

1920 in aviation (2751 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1915 in aviation|1915]]
6: |align=center|[[1916 in aviation|1916]]
8: |align=center|[[1917 in aviation|1917]]
10: |align=center|[[1918 in aviation|1918]]

1921 in aviation (3158 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1916 in aviation|1916]]
6: |align=center|[[1917 in aviation|1917]]
8: |align=center|[[1918 in aviation|1918]]
10: |align=center|[[1919 in aviation|1919]]

1922 in aviation (6195 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1917 in aviation|1917]]
6: |align=center|[[1918 in aviation|1918]]
8: |align=center|[[1919 in aviation|1919]]
10: |align=center|[[1920 in aviation|1920]]

1924 in aviation (4578 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1919 in aviation|1919]]
6: |align=center|[[1920 in aviation|1920]]
8: |align=center|[[1921 in aviation|1921]]
10: |align=center|[[1922 in aviation|1922]]

2005 in aviation (1144 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[2000 in aviation|2000]]
6: |align=center|[[2001 in aviation|2001]]
8: |align=center|[[2002 in aviation|2002]]
10: |align=center|[[2003 in aviation|2003]]

1915 in aviation (4323 bytes)
2: ..."|[[List of years in aviation|<small>Years<br/>in aviation</small>]]
4: |align=center|[[1910 in aviation|1910]]
6: |align=center|[[1911 in aviation|1911]]
8: |align=center|[[1912 in aviation|1912]]
10: |align=center|[[1913 in aviation|1913]]

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