This profile is of the Sopwith Pup N5182 of 8 Sqn RNAS. The leading Australian ace, Robert Little flew this aircraft for three victories according to "Above The Trenches", including two victories over C class aircraft and a victory over an Halberstadt DII.

Another ace who flew this aircraft, was Edward Rochfort Grange the Canadian ace from Toronto who flew with the Royal Naval Air Service. Grange scored a victory in this aircraft on the 25th of September 1916 when he destroyed a floatplane from Seeflug 1. Little flew in Grange's flight and witnessed another one of Granges victories on the 4th of January 1917, when Grange shot down three Albatros Scouts in Sopwith Pup N5194. The Little witnessing one of the aircraft on it's back in a field with a crowd of people around it. The pair shared aircraft as Little later in January 1917 shot down an Albatros DII with N5194.

At one stage in N5182's operational history it bore the name "Lady Maude" across it's side, though no photograph has surfaced yet of N5182 so marked. In July of 1916 E.R. Grange was staying in London near Picadilly Circus when he came across a Red Cross Nurse in tears. He inquired into her problem and she indicated that her purse was lost and along with all her money and that she would be room less for the night in London. Grange offered to pay for a room for her and she indicated that she would pay him back the next day as she is to visit relatives at Cecil House, which was the RFC Headquarters. She also gave her name as "Lady Maude".

The next day they go together to Cecil House in a cab to obtain the repayment. Grange waitied outside for a long time and the woman never returned. Eventually he cut his losses and left. On returning to France, the pilots of 8 RNAS decided to paint the names of their girlfriends on the side of their aircraft. Grane without a girlfriend decided to write Lady maude on the side of his. Everyone in the squadron wanted to know the who was this Lady Maude. Grange kept it a secret(1).