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Formed to license-manufacture Nieuport fighter designs for the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Sopwith Camels and Snipes were also built under subcontract. In 1917 H. P. Folland joined the firm’s Cricklewood- based design team and produced the BN.1 fighter, followed by the Nieuport Nighthawk in 1919, which was produced by the Gloster Company when Nieuport & General closed down in 1920.
Era
Nieuport-Delage 622
Circa 1940.
Nieuport-Delage 540
An all-metal long-range passenger aircraft, which had jettisonable long-range fuel tanks.
Nieuport-Delage 481
A single-seat, high-wing aerobatic or sporting monoplane.
Nieuport-Delage 82-C1
The 82-C1 was an all-metal version of the 62-C1.
Nieuport-Delage 62-C1
A single-seat sesquiplane fighter of partial wood construction, with monocoque fuselage, powered by a Lorraine or Hispano-Suiza engine.
Nieuport-Delage
SA Nieuport-Delage
Societe Anonyme des Etablissements Nieuport amalgamated with the Astra airship company in 1921, but all construction of airships was abandoned and the company name changed again to SA Nieuport-Delage.
This new company’s next project was the design and construction of two racing seaplanes for the 1929 Schneider Trophy races, but these were not finished in time to compete. The Nieuport-Delage 62-C1 was a single-seat sesquiplane fighter of partial wood construction, with monocoque fuselage, powered by a Lorraine or Hispano-Suiza engine. The 82-C1 was an all-metal version. Other projects included the N-D 481 single-seat, high-wing aerobatic or sporting monoplane; the N-D 641 mailplane; and the N-D 540 all-metal long-range passenger aircraft, which had jettisonable long-range fuel tanks.
Nieuport 81 / Mitsubishi Ko-1
Mitsubishi built 57 Nieuport 81 trainers for the Imperial Japanese Army as the Mitsubishi Ko-1.
Nieuport 31
In Sept of 1921, the French Nieuport 31 held the World’s Speed Record of 205 mph.
Nieuport 29
The 1924 Beaumont Cup race was won by Sadi Lecointe on the Nieuport 29, equipped with Hispano’s 450-horsepower V-engine. The Sadi-Lekuanta aircraft covered a distance of 300 kilometers in 57 minutes 50 seconds with an average speed of 312.39 km / h. Thus, a prize of 75,000 francs was awarded by Société Nieuport-Astra.
The Nieuport 29V set two world records in 1929.
