Historical Notes :
05-12-1931 - assembled and prepared for use by 70 Squadron at Hinaidi
12-01-1933 - It later transferred to 216 Squadron at Heliopolis and then to the RAE at Farnborough, arriving there on 13th October 1933 for loudspeaker trials. It returned to Vickers (Aviation) Ltd at Weybridge for conversion to Valentia on 21st August 1934 and on completion of conversion it was passed to 2 ASU (Aircraft Storage Unit) at Cardington on 1st March 1935. It was then issued to the Electrical and Wireless School (E&WS) at Cranwell on 14th January 1936. E&WS became 1 E&WS on 1st November 1938
04-09-1939 - K2345 was built as a Victoria before it was converted to a Valentia On either 4th or 5th September 1939 (the exact date of the accident is not known) this aircraft overshot a landing at Catterick airfield when the grass runway was wet and shorter than was required for this larger twin engined bi-plane to land on. The aircraft ran through the boundary hedge and came to rest on or very close to the A1 road. There were a number of people on board but the only injuries are believed to have been to the pilot. The out-dated Valentia was used as a flying classroom at the time and it seems likely that there were trainee wireless operators on board at the time. The Valentia type were initially built as Victoria's but many were converted into Valentia's by adding better engines and strengthening for the new engines. This was the first military aviation mishap or accident to occur in Yorkshire since war was declared.