Nieuport IV

The IV.G was one of the principal aircraft used by the Imperial Russian Air Service during its formative years, with roughly 300 being produced locally by the Russo-Baltic Wagon Works and Shchetinin in St. Petersburg, and the Dux Factory in Moscow.

[4] The French government equipped a single squadron with Nieuport IV.Ms, Escadrille N12 initially based at Reims, having purchased at least 10.

This unit continued to operate Nieuport monoplanes after the start of World War I, slowly replacing them with other types as attrition reduced their numbers.

[6] Italy's 1st Flottiglia Aeroplani of Tripoli operated several Nieuport IV.Gs during the Italo-Turkish War, one of which became the first aeroplane to be used in combat when it flew a reconnaissance mission against Turkish forces on 23 October 1911.

[14] Two officers of the former Spanish Air Force, Emilio Herrera and José Ortiz Echagüe, Captains of the Corps of Engineers of the 1st Expeditionary Air Squadron, on February 14th, 1914, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in a Nieuport IV.M, a flight between Tetouan (Morocco) and Seville (Spain), being the first intercontinental flight of the aviation history.

[15] That day,[16] Captains Herrera and Ortiz Echagüe took off from Tetouan, then the capital of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, at 1:30 p.m. and landed at Tablada Aerodrome (Seville) shortly after 6 p.m., thus taking almost 5 hours to cover the 208 kilometers in a straight line that separate the two cities.

The worst thing was the strong winds blowing in the Strait of Gibraltar, considering the limitations of their Nieuport IV-M (80-horsepower Gnome engine).

The opposition of the Riffian tribesmen to the Protectorate in the form of continuous attacks to the spaniards (wich will end in the Rif War) was another element of danger.

At the Tablada Aerodrome His Majesty King Alfonso XIII was waiting for them, to whom they delivered a message from the High Commissioner of Spain in Morocco.

Replica at Nizhny Novgorod of the Nieuport IV.G in which Nesterov performed the first loop in an aircraft
Claude Grahame-White 's Nieuport IV circa 1912. This aircraft later served with the Royal Flying Corps.
Emmanouel Argyropoulos and Nieuport IV.G Alkyon in which he made the first flight in Greece.
Nieuport IVG in the Swedish Flygvapenmuseum .
Nieuport IV.G drawing