JJD ACE-22 KNIGHTS OF THE SKIES SPAD XIII S504 -

SPAD XIII S504,

SPA3, September 1917,

Capitaine Georges Guynemer,

(1pc)      

Guynemer started flying this machine in late July, and went on to score his 53^rd victory on 20^th August 1917. Unfortunately this was the plane in which Guynemer was to mysteriously go missing in, on 11^th September 1917.

Guynemer failed to return from the combat mission on 11 September 1917. At 08:30, with rookie pilot Jean Bozon-Verduraz, Guynemer took off in his Spad XIII S.504 n°2. His mission was to patrol the Langemark area. At 09:25, near Poelkapelle, Guynemer sighted a lone Rumpler, a German observation plane, and dove toward it. Bozon-Verduraz saw several Fokkers above him, and by the time he had shaken them off, his leader was nowhere in sight, so he returned alone. Guynemer never came back.

 It was a French journalist who explained to schoolchildren, "Captain Guynemer flew so high he could not come down again."

BOX SIZE 13 ¾” x 9 ½” x 5 ¾”