AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

SPAD XIII


USAS SPAD XIIIs were finished in the various French five-colour schemes. National markings consisted of USAS roundels of red/white and blue, rudder stripes of r/w/b with the red leading.

Unit markings consisted of a fancy emblem on the side of the fuselage and stripes on the wings. These stripes could be perpendicular or diagonal to the span of the wing and were set down by officaldom as to their colours and location. Flight markings were usually denoted by a coloured cowl and occasionaly wheel covers. Individual aircraft were identified by numbers painted on the fuselage and also the wings.

Squadron leaders usually painted red/white/blue diagonal stripes on the fuselage.


 


Kellner built SPAD
w/USAS Markings

 

 


Bleriot built SPAD
w/USAS Markings

 


SPAD XIII
1/Lt Charles M Jones
-
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6

 


SPAD XIII S.18869
1/Lt Jacques Michael Swaab
October 1918
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6

SPAD XIII S.7517
1/Lt Harmon C Rorison
November 1918
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6

SPAD XIII S.16508
1/Lt Howard R Clapp
November 1918
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6


SPAD XIII
-
-
Source: OTF 3/4

 


SPAD XIII S.15155 (?)
2/Lt Frank Luke
September 1918
Source: SPAD XIII Datafile


SPAD XIII
Capt Grant ?

Source: GVW

 


SPAD XIII
1/Lt George F Fisher
-
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 4/4

SPAD XIII S.15564
Captain Everett R Cook
-
Source: OTF 2/1


SPAD XIII 7862
Maj. John Huffer
October 1918
Source: SPAD XIII Datafile

 


SPAD XIII 7799
Capt Robert Rockwell

Source: SPAD XIII Datafile


SPAD XIII S.4523
Captain Edward Rickenbacker
-
Source: Aircam SPAD VII-XIII

 


SPAD XIII S.15034
Lt Hamilton Coolidge
September / October 1918
Source: via GVW


SPAD XIII S.4505
Lt Alan Nutt

Source: via Mike O'Neal

 


SPAD XIII S.7777
Captain Cedric E Fauntleroy
October 1918
Source: via GVW

SPAD XIII S.7777
Captain Cedric E Fauntleroy
Postwar
Source: via GVW

SPAD XIII
Lt Weir Cook
Spring 1919
Source: GVW Photos


SPAD XIII
Lt William Palmer
Spring 1919
Source: GVW Photos

 


SPAD XIII S.16546
Captain Reed Chambers
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1


SPAD XIII
Lt Dudley Outcault
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1


SPAD XIII
Lt Samuel Kaye
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1


SPAD XIII
Lt Leo Dawson
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1


SPAD XIII
Lt Robert Donaldson
Spring 1919
Source: GVW Photos


SPAD XIII
Lt Ben Jones
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1



SPAD XIII
Lt John Jeffers
Spring 1919
Source: C&C(INT) 29/1

 


SPAD XIII S.15123
-
Summer 1918
Source: OTF 1/3


SPAD XIII S.2741
Lt Laurence Cauffman

Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/4:141

 


SPAD XIII S4377
Charles Henry Dolan
-
Source: Windsock 6/5

 


SPAD XIII S.2742
1/Lt Gorman DeFreest Larner
Summer 1918
Source: Windsock 6/4


SPAD XIII S.7714
Captain Robert Soubiran
November 1918
Source: OTF 5/2


SPAD XIII S.16546
Major Kirby
April 1919
Source: OTF 14/3

 


SPAD XIII S.15137
1/Lt David Putnam
-
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 4/4

SPAD XIII
1/Lt John J Quinn
-
Source: OTF 7/2: 176

SPAD XIII S.4606
1/Lt Raymond Seevers
Postwar
Source: OTF 7/2: 178

SPAD XIII
Lt Dawson
Postwar
Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6


SPAD XIII S.7835


Source: Aerodrome Modeler 3/6

 


SPAD S.XIII S.15221
1/Lt Ernest Love
September 1918
Source: via Al Roesler

SPAD XIII S.7731
1/Lt John C Lee

Source: SPAD XIII Datafile

SPAD XIII S.152294
1/Lt Alvin H Treadwell
September-December 1918
Source: Windsock 6/5