what is it?
The Nieuport IV was a French-built sporting, training and reconnaissance monoplane of the early 1910s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.1 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 115 years ago, in 1911.
- Wingspan of 12.1 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1911
- introduced
- 1911
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- role
- sporting and military monoplane
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Nieuport
- engines
- 1× Gnome
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 8.2 m
- wingspan
- 12.1 m
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q504268, Wikipedia: Nieuport IV (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.