Nieuport 11
| Nieuport 11 | |
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| Nieuport 11 | |
| Role | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Nieuport |
| Designer | Gustave Delage |
| Introduction | 5 January 1916 |
| Retired | Summer of 1917 |
| Status | Used as a trainer until the end of the First World War[1] |
| Primary users | Aéronautique Militaire Corpo Aeronautico Militare (Italy), Imperial Russian Air Service |
| Variants | Nieuport 16 and 17 |
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The Nieuport 11 is a French single-engine biplane fighter aircraft used during World War I that allowed France to defeat the German Fokker Eindeckers. It sometimes called "Bébé" (the French word for baby) due to its small size. A more powerful version, the Nieuport 16 was also built, leading to a series of fighters that served into the 1920s.
Sources
[change | change source]- ↑ Angelucci 1983, p. 53.
