AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

France: Escadrille 87


While equipped with aluminum finished Ni17s, Escadrille 87 adopted a black cat as their unit marking. Later, with teh coming of camouflaged Nieuports and Spads, they switched to a white cat.



Nieuport 17 N2442
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February 1917
Source: OTF 3/1


Nieuport 24
Cpl William Wellman
March 1918
Source: OTF 3/1

 

 


Nieuport 27 N5690
Sgt Marcel Gasser
March 1918
Source: OTF 3/1
 
SPAD XIII
Adj Discours
late 1918
Source: OTF 3/1