page_title: Nieuport 12
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Nieuport 12 / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Nieuport 12 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Canada, following extensive restoration to original condition. This aircraft was donated, along with a French 75mm cannon and a large collection of propaganda posters to the Canadian Dominion Archivist Sir Arthur Doughty and after being shipped to Canada, was used for war bond drives until the influenza outbreak resulted in further war bond fundraising being cancelled, and it being placed in storage. In the late 1960s it was taken out of storage and in the absence of any information, was modified by the Air Force to appear as a Beardmore-built Nieuport 12, with a new fin and rudder to replace those lost during its travels, and the engine was replaced with a Clerget, as references indicated was the correct engine. During restoration, photos as it appeared during the war bond drive were discovered, the original engine was identified, located, and reinstalled, damaged components rebuilt, along with a new rudder and tail skid.
context_page_description: The Nieuport 12 was a French sesquiplane reconnaissance, fighter aircraft and trainer used by France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States during World War I. Later production examples were built as trainers and served widely until the late 1920s.
context_section_description:  Argentina
  Argentine Naval Aviation
   Belgium
  Belgian Air Force
   Chile
  Chilean Air Force – One aircraft only.
   France
  Aéronautique Militaire
   Estonia
  Estonian Air Force – Postwar.
   Greece
  Royal Hellenic Navy
   Japan
  Imperial Japanese Army Air Service – received 40 Nieuport 81 E.2 from France in 1919, supplemented with 57 licence-built aircraft.
   Poland
  Polish Air Force
   Portugal
  Portuguese Air Force
   Romania
  Royal Romanian Air Force
   Russian Empire
  Imperial Russian Air Service
   Serbia
  Serbian Air Force
   Siam
  Royal Siamese  Aeronautical Service – One aircraft only.
   United Kingdom
  Royal Flying Corps
  No. 45 Squadron RFC
  No. 46 Squadron RFC
  No. 65 Squadron RFC
  No. 84 Squadron RFC
  Royal Naval Air Service
  No. 7 Squadron RNAS
  No. 10 Squadron RNAS
   United States
  American Expeditionary Force
   Soviet Union
  Workers' and Peasants' Air Fleet
caption: Nieuport 12 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
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