Nieuport-Delage NiD 38

The Nieuport-Delage NiD 38 was a touring aircraft built in small numbers in France in the early 1920s. It was a single-bay biplane of conventional design with an enclosed cabin for two passengers and an open cockpit for the pilot, powered by a single Hispano-Suiza 8Ab engine of 130 kilowatts. The prototype was exhibited at the 1924 Salon de l Aeronautique in Paris, and the airline Compagnie Aerienne Francaise ordered four machines. Two of these had their passenger compartments replaced by mail holds and were used on the Geneva to Bordeaux airmail route. The aircraft had a wingspan of 10.9 metres, weighed 950 kilograms empty and reached a maximum speed of 160 kilometres per hour.