This strikingly painted Bleriot XXVII is a bit of an enigma - it's pre-1936 history is not authenticated, however it is believed to be the Bleriot XXVII shown at the Paris Aero Show of December 1911. It was stored for the duration of the Great War at Le Havre, was bought by Richard Nash at 1936 and after restoration to airworthiness crashed in June of that year, but was restored again, and after being sold to the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1952, and after years of loan to the RAF Museum was finally sold to them in 1992 along with other Edwardian and Great War aircraft. The Bleriot XXVII is now on display in the rebuilt Edwardian Grahame-White Factory. The aircraft's official page on the Royal Air Force Museum's website can be visited here http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/bleriot-xxvii.cfm
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