The fuselage of the Estonian Maritime Museum Short 184 reproduction in a workshop at Türi in early July.A reproduction Short 184 seaplane destined for display at the Estonian Maritime Museum at Tallinn is approaching completion in a workshop at Türi, central Estonia. No complete example of the 900-odd Short 184s built survives. About 650 of these large single-engined torpedo bombers served with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), and the reproduction will represent one of eight ex-RNAS 184s operated by the Estonian Marine Air Force after the First World War as trainers and mail delivery aircraft between Tallinn and Helsinki.

The museum commissioned Urmas Haug, a graduate in cabinetmaking from the Tallinn School of Construction, to build the machine, but it soon became clear that a comprehensive set of blueprints for the type no longer exists. Haug visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton to examine and photograph in detail the largest surviving Short 184 relic, a battered forward fuselage and centre section, and also studied drawings held by the museum. In the early 1980s the Royal Air Force Museum started a Short 184 project, but, although a certain amount of information was gathered, it was considered insufficient for the project to proceed. Those details were passed on to the Estonians, and this co-operation could soon result in construction starting on a Short 184 for display in the UK. Tragically, Haug, whose previous projects include a Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis replica, was killed in a gliding accident in July 2010, but the team he set up is still working hard to finish the aeroplane by the early autumn.