Nieuport 16

Nieuport 16 C.1
Role Fighter
National origin France
Manufacturer Nieuport, Dux
Designer Gustave Delage
First flight 1916
Introduction March 1916
Retired 1917
Primary users Aéronautique Militaire (France)
Royal Flying Corps, Imperial Russian Air Service
Produced 1916
Number built unknown
Developed from Nieuport 11
Developed into Nieuport 17

The Nieuport 16 C.1 (or Nieuport XVI C.1 in contemporary sources) was a French World War I single-seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft, designed by Gustave Delage as a development of the Nieuport 11 with a more powerful engine. The Nieuport 16's service life coincided with the period when the first air-to-air rockets, the Le Prieur rocket, were used most frequently, and the type has a closer association with them than any other aircraft.

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