Fairey IIIC

Mounting the powerful Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engine in the Fairey III was bound to produce a winning combination, but the plane arrived too late for operational service in WWI. (Though the first few were completed before the Armistice. )

The Fairey IIIC featured the same equal-span wings as the Fairey IIIA and the tail and floats of the IIIB. The IIIC was just starting to make its way to naval air stations in November 1918 when the war ended. The IIIC likely served at Archangel with the North Russian Expeditionary Force in 1918.

The powerful engine was not the only upgrade to the IIIA: the IIIC also fitted a Sacana self-sealing petrol tank.