Random French Fighter Tables

French Fighters
1915
^{[note 1]}		Summer	Autumn
^{[note 1]}		01-83 Morane-Saulnier N 84-00 Nieuport 11	01-80 Nieuport 11 81-00 Morane-Saulnier N
1916
Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn^{[note 2]}
01-84 Nieuport 11 85-97 Morane-Saulnier N 98-00 SPAD A.2	01-91 Nieuport 11 92-96 SPAD A.2 97-00 Morane-Saulnier N	01-75 Nieuport 11 76-93 Nieuport 16 94-97 Nieuport 17 98-00 SPAD A.2	01-53 Nieuport 11 54-77 Nieuport 16 78-97 Nieuport 17 98-00 SPAD A.2
1917
Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn
01-47 Nieuport 17 48-72 Nieuport 23/24 73-87 Nieuport 11 88-95 Nieuport 16 96-00 SPAD 7	01-64 Nieuport 23/24 65-89 Nieuport 17 90-99 SPAD 7 00 Nieuport 11	01-60 Nieuport 23/24 61-87 SPAD 7 89-99 Nieuport 17 00 SPAD 13	01-55 Nieuport 23/24 56-90 SPAD 7 91-97 Nieuport 17 98-00 SPAD 13
1918
Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn
01-54 SPAD 7 55-81 Nieuport 23/24 82-89 SPAD 13 90-96 Nieuport 27 97-99 Nieuport 17 00 Morane-Saulnier AI	01-53 SPAD 7 54-85 SPAD 13 86-93 Nieuport 27 94-97 Morane-Saulnier AI 98-00 Nieuport 23/24	01-86 SPAD 13 87-99 SPAD 7 00 Nieuport 27	01-95 SPAD 13 96-99 SPAD 7 00 SPAD 17

These charts show the use over time of each WWI French aircraft. The data is derived from escadrille records in Davilla and Soltan's French Aircraft of the First World War. While it contains little data on the arrival and retirement of each type, we do benefit that each escadrille changed names when it changed types. For instance F(arman)1 changed to AR1 when they traded their Farman F.40s for A.R.1s in April 1917. Such changes did not occur on a knife edge. Furthermore, it is difficult to know when an escadrille transitioned from one type to another by the same manufacturer, e.g. SPAD 7 to SPAD 13. Hopefully such uncertainties will average out over the large amount of data. Numbers were sometimes adjusted up or down a percent to account for rounding errors. The types are sorted with each season from most-used to least-used planes.

References

Notes

↑ Morane-Saulnier L aircraft with deflector plates were used in 1915, but it is difficult to determine how many of those aircraft were used a fighters.
↑ Some Sopwith Strutters were used in a fighter role, but it is impossible to tell how common this was in proportion to their more common reconnaissance and bombing roles.

Bibliography

Dr. James J. Davilla and Arthur M. Soltan. French Aircraft of the First World War. Flying Machines Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9637110-4-0.

[1] Morane-Saulnier L aircraft with deflector plates were used in 1915, but it is difficult to determine how many of those aircraft were used a fighters.

[2] Some Sopwith Strutters were used in a fighter role, but it is impossible to tell how common this was in proportion to their more common reconnaissance and bombing roles.

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