Nieuport-Delage NiD 62

The Nieuport-Delage NiD 62 was a French sesquiplane fighter of the early 1930s, a descendant of the long line of Nieuport-Delage fighters designed and built in the years after the First World War. It was built in 1931 for the Armee de l Air and served until the late 1930s, when more modern monoplane fighters replaced it. A Hispano-Suiza 12Hb liquid-cooled V-12 piston engine of 373 kilowatts powered it. By the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 every NiD 62 had been withdrawn from front-line fighter squadrons, though they were used as trainers in French flight schools and a few as target tugs. After the armistice of June 1940 the German Luftwaffe had no interest in them and they were scrapped, so none survived the war. Variants included a twin-float trainer and a fifty-strong batch with a modified wing and ailerons.