Nieuport VI

The Nieuport VI was a French sport monoplane of the 1910s, a development by Nieuport along the same lines as the Nieuport II and Nieuport IV and differing mainly from the Nieuport IV in being slightly larger. It was first flown in April 1912 and was powered by a Gnome rotary engine. Like the Nieuport IV, military air arms used it as a reconnaissance aircraft and trainer. It was produced first as a seaplane called the VI.G, with twin pontoons and a teardrop shaped float under the tail, and a refined VI.H followed with a revised tail. Italy built military Type VIs under licence at Nieuport-Macchi and Russia also built them. It raced at Saint-Malo in August 1912, was shown at the 1912 Paris Salon de l Aeronautique and flew at the Monaco Grand Prix d Hydroplanes in April 1913.