An accurate count!!

[tengew]

I know that this has probably been brought up before but is there an accurate count of remaining WW1 aircraft sill in one piece not flyable but intact???????

[SCMc]

tengew,

There has been a recent thread about this. Lists of known "survivors" have been posted, but it is an ongoing work. You should be able to find the thread by searching "WWI survivors."

Steve

[JDK]

The thread on the Key Publishing website has been significantly updated. See:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66462

[Jim]

And there is the never ending question as to what is a surviving WW I aircraft. Most aircraft of this vintage have had extensive replacement and restoration over the years to the point where many have very few actual pieces of original wood/metal/fabric left in them. At what point does it become a reproduction as opposed to an original? I don't know.

Or what about aircraft that are a collection of pieces from different examples of a model and that have been put together over the years to make one aircraft?

Also, there is another impossible question as to whether to include aircraft that were built during those years but that never flew in the war - either they were still on the production lines in the factories when the war ended, or they were made and kept in countries where the war never reached such as many U.S. manufactured aircraft of the era.