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Eventually, the S.XIII equipped nearly every French fighter squadron, 74 escadrilles, during the First World War. [25] At the end of the war, plans were underway to replace the S.XIII with several fighter types powered by the 220 kW (300 hp) Hispano-Suiza 8F, such as the Nieuport-Delage NiD 29, the SPAD S.XX and the Sopwith Dolphin II. [26]
49th Aero Squadron (Pursuit) 2 August 1918 – 5 December 1918 (SPAD S.XIII) 103rd Aero Squadron (Pursuit) 4 July 1918 – 7 August 1918 (SPAD S.XIII) 139th Aero Squadron (Pursuit) 30 June 1918 – 11 December 1918 (SPAD S.XIII) 3d Pursuit Group 26 July 1918 – 31 December 1918 (see page) [7] Major William Thaw II, Commander 28th Aero Squadron ...
He was then posted to command of a fighter unit, Flik 61J on 28 December 1917, the first reserve lieutenant to do so. He was joined by his friend, Franz Gräser, at Flik 61J's field at Motta di Livenza. [6] Strohschneider also found himself simultaneously commanding a second fighter squadron while its commander Karl Nikitsch was ill.
At that time, the squadron was redesignated the 94th Tactical Fighter Squadron, reassigned to Tactical Air Command, and reunited with the 27th and 71st Squadrons under the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing (1 TFW), flying the F-4E. The 94th assumed the duties of a Replacement Training Unit (RTU), providing F-4 aircrews for operational combat squadrons.
The 94th Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service fighter squadron that fought on the Western Front during World War I. [3] [7] The squadron was assigned as a Day Pursuit (Fighter) Squadron as part of the 1st Pursuit Group, First United States Army. Its mission was to engage and clear enemy aircraft from the skies and provide escort ...
The 13th Aero Squadron SPAD S.XII, showing the slight positive stagger of the wings. No units were entirely equipped with SPAD XIIs. [citation needed] The unknown number of aircraft produced were issued in small numbers, intended for use only by the most skilled pilots, such as Rene Fonck, Lionel de Marmier, Fernand Henri Chavannes, Henri Hay de Slade, Albert Deullin and François Battesti.
The 3rd Pursuit Group was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I as part of the First United States Army.Formed in France in July 1918, the group was assigned to the 1st Pursuit Wing and saw action in the final months of the war, supporting the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
The SPAD S.XI or SPAD 11 is a French two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. The SPAD 11 was the work of Louis Béchereau , chief designer of the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD), who also designed the highly successful SPAD 7 and SPAD 13 single-seat fighter aircraft .