Nieuport 28

Several well-known WWI American pilots, including 26-victory American ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker (chosen scheme) and Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of former President Theodore Roosevelt, flew Nieuport 28s.

• Left and right wing panel sets easily remove from the fuselage for transport to and from the flying field.
  
• All airframe assemblies are precovered & pretrimmed, and all required openings are predrilled and/or precut.
  
• The fiberglass cowl is prepainted and pretrimmed, and the cockpit and windshield coaming is preinstalled.
  
• Each aileron is separately operated by its own in-wing servo.
  
• Pull-pull cables and clevises are used for rudder control.
  
• Preformed, streamlined landing gear, scale-like wheels, wheel collars & steerable tail wheel are all included.

The Nieuport 28 was a French biplane fighter flown during World War I, designed by Gustave Delage and built by Nieuport, also known as Nieuport-Delage – a French airplane company famous for racers before World War I and fighter aircraft during World War I and between the wars. Retaining many of the Nieuport 17’s best features, the Nieuport 28 was a lightly built, highly maneuverable fighter with more powerful engine and twin synchronized machine guns.