French Aircraft of
the First World War
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DESCRIPTION TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS REVIEWS


Color Profile List

AIRCRAFT TYPE

1. Voisin 4 with 37-mm cannon of VB509.

2. Voisin 8 of VB109.

3. Voisin 10 of VB125.

4. Morane-Saulnier H.

5. Morane-Saulnier L, serial unknown, flown by Roland Garros, Dunkerque 1915.

6. Morane-Saulnier L, serial number 39, flown by Corporal Georges Guynemer while with MS 3.

7. Morane-Saulnier N A.178 of No.24 Squadron, RFC, July 1916.

8. Morane Saulnier P, serial number and unit unknown.

9. Morane Saulnier AI, serial number 1724, flown by Sgt. Rufus R. Rand, Jr., when with MS 158.

10. Henri Farman H.F.20 flown by MF 44 near Verdun circa 1915.

11. Maurice Farman M.F.11 fitted with a forward 'visor' which could be lifted.

12. Maurice Farman M.F.11 floatplane, Baltic Sea Fleet serial number 31, flown by Russian naval Ace Mikhail Safonov, circa March 1916.

13. Caudron G.3, serial unknown, used as a trainer at Juvisy.

14. Caudron G.4, serial number C1746, flown by Caporal Kenneth P. Littauer of C 74, circa winter 1916­p;17.

15. Nieuport 11 serial number N557 from N 12.

16. Nieuport 11, serial number unknown, flown by pilot Armand Galliot de Turrenne of N 48 in 1916.

17. Nieuport 16, serial number N1454, flown by Sergeant Charles Johnson when with the Lafayette Escadrille (N 124).

18. Nieuport 12 serial number 1043 as flown by the 3rd Corps Detachment of the Imperial Russian Air Service.

19. Nieuport 17 serial number N1550 as flown by Sous Lieutenant Georges Guynemer when attached to N 3 in early 1917.

20. Nieuport 17 serial number N1490 as flown by ace Sous Lieutenant Charles Nungesser when attached to N 124 in July 1916.

21. Nieuport 24 serial number N5340 flown by Sgt. Herschel Mckee of N 314 when he was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire and taken POW near Chateau-Salins on 8 February 1918.

22. Nieuport 27 serial number N5246 flown by Sous Lieutenant Gilbert Discours (two victories) of N 87.

23. Nieuport 28 serial N6169 flown by Major John Huffer (CO) and First Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacker of the 94th Aero Squadron.

24. Nieuport 28, serial number unknown, flown by Lt. Zenos Miller of the 27th Aero Squadron, USAS.

25. Hanriot HD.1 serial number 24 flown by Sous Lieutenant Willy Coppens of 9e Escadrille Belge, May 1918.

26. Hanriot HD.1 serial 6254 flown by ace Giorgio Michetti while attached to Squadriglia 76a.

28. AR.1 serial number 366 of AR 14.

29. AR.1, serial number unknown, of AR 203.

30. AR.2 serial number 717 of an unknown escadrille. T

31. Sopwith 1A2 Strutter serial number unknown, of SOP 24, Toul, circa March 1918.

32. Sopwith 1A2 Strutter, serial number and escadrille unknown.

33. Sopwith 1B1 Strutter, serial number unknown, of SOP 111.

34. Sopwith 1A2 Strutter, serial number 2572, of SOP 287.

35. SPAD SA.2, serial number and unit unknown.

36. SPAD 7, serial number 1215, flown by ace Jacques Rogues when with SPA 48, summer 1917.

37. SPAD 7, serial unknown, as flown by ace Sergeant Pierre Cardon when with SPA 81.

38. SPAD 11 serial number 2043 of SPA-Bi 102.

39. SPAD 11 serial number 6006 of SPA-Bi 49.

40. SPAD 11 (Bernard-built) serial number 6550 of SPA-Bi 34.

41. SPAD 13 C1, serial unknown, as flown by ace Sgt. Frank L. Baylies when with SPA 73 in December 1917.

42. SPAD 13 C1 (Kellner-built) serial number S4523 as flown by ace First Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacker of the 94th Aero Squadron.

43. SPAD 13 C1 (Blériot-built) serial number S2729 flown by Adjutant Reginald Sinclair of SPA 68, June 1918 (three victories).

44. SPAD 13 C1 (Blériot-built) serial number S2742 flown by ace First Lieutenant Gorman DeFreest Larner with the 103rd Aero Squadron (formerly Lafayette Escadrille, SPA 124).

45. SPAD 12 Ca.1 serial number S445 flown by ace Second Lieutenant Rene Fonck of SPA 103.

46. SPAD 16 serial number S12102 flown by Paul Menet of SPA-Bi 21.

47. Salmson 2 A2 serial number 479 of SAL 58.

48. Breguet 14 B2 of BR 117 flown by American volunteer First Lieutenant Manderson Lehr.

49. Breguet 14 A2 serial number 63?? of BR 287.

50. Breguet 14 A2 serial number 4644 of BR 234, circa autumn 1918.

51. Breguet 14 B2 serial number 1306 of BR 123.

52. Breguet 14 B2, serial unknown, flown by Sous-Lieutenant Djibrail Nazare-Aga of BR 108, circa autumn 1918.

53. Breguet 14 B2, probably serial number 4231, flown by ace pilot Capitaine Jean Jannekeyn (five victories) and ace observer Lieutenant Eugene Weismann (seven victories), both with BR 132.

54. Breguet 14 B2 serial number 4018 on July 29 1918, flown by Major Harry Brown in the 96th Aero Squadron's first mission over the lines on June 18, 1918.

55. Breguet 14 B2 serial number 1333 of BR 117.

56. Blériot XI, serial unknown.

57. Hanriot HD.2, serial unknown, flown by Ensign George Clark Moseley of the USN fighter squadron at Dunkirk, early 1918.

58. F.B.A. Type C, serial unknown, flown by the French Aviation Maritime.

59. Nieuport 6H, serial unknown, flown by the French Aviation Maritime, circa autumn 1914.

60. SPAD 14, serial unknown, flown by the French Aviation Maritime, circa autumn 1917.

61. F.B.A. Type H, serial number 3147, flown by naval pilots Guarnieri and Armaiolo G. Jannello, both with the Italian Naval Squadron 2A.