page_title: Bristol F.2 Fighter
section_title: Survivors
hierarchical_section_title: Bristol F.2 Fighter / Survivors
caption_attribution_description: English: Bristol F2B Fighter D8096 was built in 1918 and served in 208 Squadron in Turkey after the end of World War I.
context_page_description: The Bristol F.2 Fighter was a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War developed by Frank Barnwell at the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It is often simply called the Bristol Fighter, other popular names include the "Brisfit" or "Biff".
  Although the type was intended initially as a replacement for the pre-war Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c reconnaissance aircraft, the newly available Rolls-Royce Falcon V12 engine gave it the performance of a two-seat fighter.
  Despite a disastrous start to its career, the definitive F.2B version proved to be an agile aircraft that was able to hold its own against opposing single-seat fighters; its robust design ensured that it remained in military service into the 1930s. Some surplus aircraft were registered for civilian use, and dedicated civilian versions proved popular.
context_section_description: There are three airworthy Bristol Fighters as of 2007 (and several replicas):
  The Shuttleworth Collection contains one airworthy F.2B Fighter, identity D8096, that still flies during the British summer.
  The Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, owns a second example, D-7889.
  The New Zealand film director Peter Jackson owns  D-8084, which flies from the Hood Aerodrome, In Masterton, New Zealand. The Aviation Heritage Centre, In Omaka, N.Z., holds a second, original fuselage.
  Substantially original aircraft are on static display at the:
  Royal Air Force Museum London, UK
  Imperial War Museum Duxford, UK
  Museo del Aire, Madrid, Spain
  Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels, Belgium
  Polish Aviation Museum, Kraków
  Restorations of original airframes include:
  Original fuselage being rebuilt into a flyable aircraft, Ross Walton Family Collection, Bardstown, Kentucky.
  In 2016, Aerospace Bristol, Filton Airfield, Bristol, UK, purchased an airframe from a private collection in the US for restoration and display in its new museum.  This sale was erroneously reported to be from Ross Walton.
  In addition, a number of replicas are operated or displayed in locations around the world. These include:
  Engineers at Rolls-Royce, Airbus and GKN Aerospace-Filton have built a full-scale replica F.2B in celebration of 100 years of aircraft manufacture at Filton Bristol, where the original fighters were designed and built.
caption: F2B of the Shuttleworth Collection in flight
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