Designed by Henri Farman, hence the ‘HF’ designation, the Farman IV was a training design which saw little use in France but was popular throughout Russia with both factory and homebuilt examples being produced. This replica represents the type, although the resemblance is only passing! A more accurate replica has recently been produced by the Moscow Aviation Institute, see:- www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/37088473225/ The following information is from www.aviation-photos.net “This is a working replica built to the order of the Lenfilm studio for use in "The Aviator" (Воздухоплаватель), a 1975 feature film loosely chronicling the life of Ivan Mikhailovich Zaikin (1870-1948). An Odessa-based circus strong-man (and later champion Greco-Roman wrestler), Zaikin was a noted celebrity in pre-WWI Russia. He earned initial fame for public demonstrations of strength in which he broke iron chains with his hands and bent steel bars across the back of his neck. In 1910 he became one of the first Russians to fly a biplane when he took to the air aboard a Farman IV. According to the Museum’s official guidebook, the replica housed in the VVS collection completed fifty flights before being donated by the film studio in September 1975” On display in the new entrance building to the Central Air Force museum, Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.