Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Light Machine Gun Mockup Display Gun - Original and Replica Parts Hotchkiss .303 and support from Air Force

and support from Air Force reconnaissance planes

Wood stock is in excellent condition

We estimate that this octagonal barrel rifle was originally made about 1790

There isn’t a heat stamp visible on the interior of the shell

Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Light Machine Gun Mockup Display Gun - Original and Replica Parts Hotchkiss .303 and support from Air ForceOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Lewis gun has the distinction of being the first machine gun fired from an aeroplane; on 7 June 1912 Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army fired a prototype Lewis gun from the foot bar of a Wright Model B Flyer. This is a very nice "Mockup" Display Gun version of the Aircraft Lewis Gun, built around a fabricated steel and aluminum inert BATF compliant receiver. As it was never an actual machine gun part and can