On display in the Grahame-White Factory at RAF Museum Hendon. This S.E.5a was built by Wolseley in Birmingham and delivered to the RAF in 1918. It may have reached the Western Front during the war as it was serving with No. 84 Sqn. in 1919 in Germany. After the Great War it was one of the S.E.5s bought and refitted by Maj. JC Savage, the British pioneer of skywriting based at Hendon. It went into storage before WW2. After that war it was gradually restored, then displayed at RAFM Hendon in Jan. 1972.

This aircraft was part of a batch built in 1918. It became G-EBIC in 1924. The Se-5A was considered to have been the best British single-engined fighter aircraft of WWI

There is some debate about the c/n of this air frame. Preserved F938 is former G-EBIC and 687/2404 is given by CAA to G-EBIC. It may be the case that large parts of F938 in the RAF Museum and F937 (ex G-EBIB cn 688/2404) in the Science Museum have been exchanged in the thirties, resulting in a mix-up of identity.

Today's ultralight 'SE replicas' often hardly look like the real thing which was quite a good-looking biplane fighter.