page_title: Morane-Saulnier H
section_title: Morane-Saulnier versions
hierarchical_section_title: Morane-Saulnier H / Variants / Morane-Saulnier versions
caption_attribution_description: PictionID:43637994 - Catalog:16_004567 - Title:Pfalz E.I - Filename:16_004567.TIF - - - - - - - Image from the Ray Wagner Collection. Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
context_page_description: The Morane-Saulnier H was an early aircraft first flown in France in the months immediately preceding the First World War; it was a single-seat derivative of the successful Morane-Saulnier G with a slightly reduced wingspan Like the Type G, it was a successful sporting and racing aircraft: examples serving with the French army were used in the opening phases of the war.
  German versions, both licensed and copied, were armed with forward-firing machine guns and became the first single-seat fighter aircraft so armed.
context_section_description: Type G  two seater
  Type H single seater
  Type L  parasol monoplane
  Type M  armoured single seater
  Type O racing monoplane developed from H, two built including one for Roland Garros that was fitted with wheels and floats
  MoS.1 Official designation for Type H
  MoS.2 Official designation for Type G
  MoS.3 Official designation for Type L
  MoS.13 Official designation for Type M
caption: Pfalz E.I side view
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