War-weary Re8 being serviced
Omaka Museum Display
Cockpit detail and gunner in position
TVAL RE8 on display at the Aviation Heritage Centre Museum, Omaka Airfield, Blenheim, New Zealand. Nicknamed ‘Harry Tate’ after a popular music hall performer, the RAF R.E.8 was considered neither popular nor much of a performer. It was nevertheless built in considerable numbers and proved a necessary if not ideal workhorse.
Just two R.E.8s survived the ravages of time and these are displayed in museums in London and Brussells. The aircraft displayed here is a reproduction built exactly to the original 1916 specifications here in New Zealand.
