The Bristol Box Kite was an early British designed aeroplane, configured in a biplane format.

Developed in 1910 on the box kite principles developed by Lawrence Hargrave, it consisted of a single fore-plane, a box section main and a box section tail-plane ^[1]

being such an early aeroplane, it holds a number of "first" records:

• First plane to fly into RAF Bicester
• First plane to fly into RAAF Williams, in Point Cook, Victoria ^[2]
• First aeroplane to fly into Perth Airport
• No's 27/28/29 were sold by visiting Belgian Joseph Christiaens to the South African Army ^[3]

Flight Lieutenant Pizey (born 1 April 1883 Clevedon, Bristol; died 11 June 1915 Athens, Greece) who was one of the early pioneers of British flying, having gained his certificate No 61, in a Bristol Box-Kite, on Salisbury Plain on 14th February 1911 - he also took place in the Daily Mail Air Race that year ^[4]

No original Bristol Box Kites aeroplanes survive today, although three replica's were created for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. One was sent to Australia, one to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, and one to the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire

• Japanese Kite history, including Box Kites
• Bristol City Council catalog - Box Kite entry