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Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a (80% scale)
- Registration: CF-QGM
- Paint Scheme: Royal Flying Corps markings, James McCudden
- Year Completed: 1970
- First Flight: 30 June 1970
- Plan set used: Prototype Scale SE5a based on Currie-Watt homebuilt.
- Engine Type: Continental C85-12
- Engine replaced with: Lycoming O-235-C
- Engine replaced in: July 1999
- Major rebuilds in: 1987, 1998
- This replica SE5a is of interest because it is one of two prototypes for this scale plan set. It is the 'sister' airplane of C-FQGL, which is still flying with the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, British Columbia. For much of its life with the GWFM, this aircraft wore the colourful (if short lived) paint scheme of A 8936 with No. 60 Sqn. RFC, wearing a blue nose and wheel covers. William Avery Bishop, VC wore this scheme briefly before an official scheme was handed down for the SE5, forcing it to be painted in more conventional British colours. Following its more recent rebuild, QGM was repainted to represent B4863, as flown by James McCudden, VC while serving with No. 56 Sqn. RFC.
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