The Nieuport B.N.1 was a prototype British single-engined fighter aircraft of the First World War.
It was a single-engined biplane intended to replace the Sopwith Camel, but only one was built, being destroyed in a crash.
[1] This allowed the Nieuport & General Aircraft Co Ltd, which was formed at Cricklewood, London in 1916 to license produce French Nieuport aircraft,[2] to acquire the services of Henry Folland, previously responsible for the design of the S.E.5 fighter, as chief designer.
It had equal-span, unstaggered two bay wings, a slab-sided fuselage and was powered by a 230 hp (172 kW) Bentley BR2 rotary engine.
This caused the B.N.1 to be abandoned, with the Snipe being purchased to replace the Camel, and Folland concentrating on the design of the more advanced Nieuport Nighthawk.