page_title: Le Rhône
section_title: Applications
hierarchical_section_title: Le Rhône / Applications
caption_attribution_description: English: A Le Rhône radial engine on display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas (United States).
context_page_description: Le Rhône was the name given to a series of popular rotary aircraft engines produced in France by Société des Moteurs Le Rhône and the successor company of Gnome et Rhône. They powered a number of military aircraft types of the First World War. Le Rhône engines were also produced under license worldwide.
  Although not powerful, they were dependable rotary engines. The Le Rhône 9 was a development of the Le Rhône 7, a seven-cylinder design. Examples of nine-cylinder Le Rhône rotary engines are on public display in aviation museums with several remaining airworthy, powering vintage aircraft types.
context_section_description: Adamoli-Cattani fighter
  Airco DH.5
  Avro 504
  Bristol M.1
  Bristol Scout
  Caudron G.3
  Caudron G.4
  Hanriot HD.1
  Fokker Dr.I
  Cierva C.6, autogyro, 1924
  Macchi M.14
  Morane-Saulnier N
  Mosca MB 2 bis
  Nieuport 10
  Nieuport 11 "Bebe"
  Nieuport 16
  Nieuport 17, 21 & 23
  Nieuport 24 & 24bis
  Nieuport 27
  Sopwith Camel
  Sopwith Pup
  Standard E-1
  Texas-Temple prototype
  Thomas-Morse S-4C
caption: A Le Rhône radial engine on display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum
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