Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 Aces
During its widespread service, four dozen aces used the FE.2 as their mount. Notable aces flying the FE.2 included:
- F.E.2b pilot aces
- Carleton Main Clement
- Chester Stairs Duffus
- James Green
- Harold Hartney
- Victor Huston
- Reginald Malcolm
- Stephen Price
- John Quested
- Lancelot Richardson
- David Stewart
- Noel Webb
- Charles Woollven
- F.E.2d pilot aces
- Donald Cunnell
- Harry G. E. Luchford
- Reginald Makepeace
- George Reid
- Guy Reid
- Cecil Roy Richards
- Frederick Thayre
- Richard M. Trevethan
Ace's honours were not reserved solely for FE.2 pilots. Though slightly in the minority in the listings, a score of observers that manned the guns also became aces. The more notable among them are listed below:
- F.E.2b observer aces
- Giles Blennerhasset - 8
- Leslie Court
- John Cowell
- Leonard Herbert Emsden - 8
- Frederick Libby
- James Robert Smith
- F.E.2d observer aces
- William Cambray
- Francis Cubbon
- Campbell Hoy
- Laurence Henry Scott
- Thomas Lewis
- James Tennant
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