Sopwith 1919 Schneider Cup Seaplane

The Sopwith Schneider of 1919 was a British racing seaplane, a small single-seat biplane that the Sopwith Aviation Company designed to compete in the 1919 Schneider Trophy, the first held since 1914. It was of all-wooden construction with single-bay wings and a new Cosmos Jupiter radial engine. Registered G-EAKI and flown by Harry Hawker, it abandoned the race at Bournemouth because of thick fog, and the race was declared void. In 1920 it was rebuilt as a landplane racer with a 320 hp ABC Dragonfly and named the Sopwith Rainbow, but was disqualified from the Aerial Derby. H. G. Hawker Engineering rebuilt it again in 1922 with a Bristol Jupiter II, and it finished second in the 1923 Aerial Derby before being destroyed in a crash on 1 September 1923.