Sopwith 1½ Strutter

Variants

Sopwith Type 9400

Official Admiralty designation for two seater version.

Sopwith Type 9700

Admiralty designation for single seater bomber.

Sopwith Two-seater

Official RFC designation.

Sopwith 1½ Strutter

Universally used but "non-official" name for two-seat fighter-scout, bomber and reconnaissance versions.

Sopwith Comic

Single seat home defence fighter

Ship Strutter

Shipboard version

SOP. 1

French built version.

LeO 1

Lioré et Olivier licence-built version.

So-shiki Model 1

Japanese licence-built bomber version.

So-Shiki Model 2

Japanese licence-built LeO 1 reconnaissance version.

Survivors

Original Sopwith 1½ Strutter aircraft are preserved at the following locations.[26] Replica aircraft are not listed.

Belgium

S85, Koninklijk Legermuseum/Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels.

France

No. 556, Sop.1A.2 at Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris Le Bourget airport.

France

No. 2897, Sop.1B.2 at the Association Memorial Flight, La Ferté-Alais near Paris (under restoration 2009).

New Zealand

A former Argentinian machine formerly in the possession of Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight museum at Polk City, Florida is under restoration with Peter Jackson's firm The Vintage Aviator Limited in New Zealand.

Sopwith One-and-a-Half Strutter preserved at the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace Paris Le Bourget

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Specifications (1½ Strutter - two seater, 130 hp Clerget)

Data from British Aeroplanes 1914-18

General characteristics

Crew: two, pilot and observer

Length: 25 ft 3 in (7.70 m)

Wingspan: 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)

Height: 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)

Wing area: 346 ft² (32.16 m²)

Empty weight: 1,305 lb (593 kg)

Loaded weight: 2,149 lb (975 kg)

Max. takeoff weight: 2,150 lb (977 kg)

Powerplant: 1 × Clerget 9B rotary engine, 130 hp (97 kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: 100 mph (87 knots, 161 km/h) at 6,500 ft (1,980 m)

Endurance: 3¾ hours

Service ceiling: 15,500 ft (4,730 m)

Climb to 6,500 ft (1,980 m): 9 min 10 s

Armament

Guns:

1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) forward-firing Vickers machine gun with Ross interrupter gear
1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun in observer's cockpit

Bombs: Up to 130 lb (60 kg) bombs

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Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter of the Belgian Air Force preserved in the Brussels Military Museum

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