Nieuport 27

The Nieuport 27, called the Nieuport XXVII C.1 in contemporary sources, was a French sesquiplane fighter of the First World War designed by Gustave Delage. It was the last of the line of V-strut single-seat Nieuport fighters that began with the Nieuport 10 of 1914. Operational examples supplemented the very similar Nieuport 24 and 24bis in front line squadrons in late 1917, and many were later used as advanced trainers, often with the Le Rhone 9JB rotary engine replaced by a lower powered one. The British Royal Flying Corps obtained 71 of them in 1917, the United States Army Air Service ordered 461 for advanced fighter training of which 287 were delivered, and Japan built 102 under licence between 1921 and 1923. Uruguay bought six surplus French aircraft and built eighteen more copies, which it redesignated AIME 10 in 1930.