Sydney Camm lengthened the Woodcock's fuselage, adjusted its wings, and installed an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IV engine for Denmark. Three British-built aircraft preceded licensed production at the Royal Danish Navy dockyard, where another twelve were built. One Hawker-built Danecock set a Scandinavian altitude record of 28,208 feet in January 1927, which stood for about eight years. The type equipped an army squadron and No. 2 Naval Squadron. Delays in bringing the Nimrod into full Danish production helped keep Danecocks in service until 1937. Danish-built No. 158 survived the Second World War and was preserved in Copenhagen with 704 hours and five minutes recorded in its logbook. The fighter could reach 145 miles per hour at sea level and climb to 10,000 feet in eight minutes fifteen seconds.
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The Danecock takes Hawker's Woodcock into Danish naval service
Denmark bought and licensed a Sydney Camm redesign of the Woodcock, equipping both an army squadron and a naval squadron with the long-serving Danecock fighter.