AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST
WORLD WAR ERA
France: Escadrille 87
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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
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Nieuport 24
Cpl William Wellman
March 1918
Source: OTF 3/1
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Nieuport 27 N5690
Sgt Marcel Gasser
March 1918
Source: OTF 3/1
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SPAD XIII
Adj Discours
late 1918
Source: OTF 3/1 |
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