Delivered to the Royal Air Force on 25 October 1918 it was then sent to No. 1 Aircraft Acceptance Park, Coventry where it received its name 'Paddy Bird from Ceylon'. Dispatched to France, arriving on 11 November 1918. As hostilities had just ceased it was sent back, still crated, and went into store at RAF Tadcaster. It was later transferred to RAF Cardington, from where it was retrieved in 1935 and sent to the Imperial War Museum where it stayed until 1974 and then transferred to Duxford. Apart from another example in the Musee Royal l'Armee, Brussels, it is only one of two original aircraft.