AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ERA

Salmson 2A2

 


The Salmson in USAS service wore five-colour camouflage. Unlike other aircraft types, the various manufacturers of the 2A2 appear to have used a common pattern, with only minor deviations in the shape of the black footprint on the starboard upper wing. USAS squadrons carried officially sanctioned insignias on their fuselage sides as well as stripes on the upper port wing to show the squadron . Individual aircraft were denoted by numbers on the fuselage and wings.

French national markings were replaced with American ones. This usually entailed the cocardes being red/blue/white and the rudder being red/whte/blue.


 


1st Aero Sqn Markings

 


12th Aero Sqn Markings


91st Aero Sqn Markings

 


Variation on
91st Aero Sqn Markings

 

 

Salmson 2A2  1286
Lt W Erwin/Lt B Baucom
-
OTF 5/4


Salmson 2A2


Source: Salmson 2A2 Datafile

 

 


Salmson 2A2
-
-
Source: OTF 5/4

Salmson 2A2 1319
-
1919
Source: OTF 5/4


Salmson 2A2

March 1919
Source: FMP Salmson book

 

 


Salmson 2A2


Source: FMP Salmson Book

 


Salmson 2A2
Lt LM Carver/Lt GT Lindstrom
October 1918
Source: OTF 5/3


Salmson 2A2


Source: FMP Salmson Book

 

 


Salmson 2A2
-
October 1919
Source: OTF 2/1

Salmson 2A2


Source: FMP Salmson book

Salmson 2A2 1709


Source: FMP Salmson Book