Deactivated Webley Model M Flare Pistol

This is a superb example of a WWII era British RAF Webley Model M flare pistol. The locking lugs located at the end of barrel were used for locking the pistol into the aircrafts fuselage. These pistols were used as a form of communition between other aircraft and to group units whilst maintaining radio silence. Different coloured flares would be fired to identify the aircrafts status or intensions, for instances if they had wounded aboard or if coordinating an attack.

Deactivated with a workinmg action it can be cocked, stripped and dry fired.