page_title: Nieuport 17
section_title: Specifications (Nieuport 17 C.1)
hierarchical_section_title: Nieuport 17 / Specifications (Nieuport 17 C.1)
caption_attribution_description: English: Nieuport 17 Type N airfoil drawings
context_page_description: The Nieuport 17 C.1 was a French sesquiplane fighter designed and manufactured by the Nieuport company during World War I. An improvement over the Nieuport 11, it was a little larger than earlier Nieuports and better adapted to the more powerful engine than the interim Nieuport 16. Aside from early examples, it had the new Alkan-Hamy synchronization gear, permitting the use of a fuselage-mounted synchronised Vickers gun firing through the propeller disc.
  At the time of its introduction in March 1916, the type's outstanding manoeuvrability and excellent rate of climb gave it a significant advantage over fighters on both sides and was described as "the best pursuit plane of the day". It was used by many operators and entered service with every Allied power and copies were also operated by the Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte. Mass-produced by several French firms, the Nieuport 17 and its derivatives were built under licence in Italy by Nieuport-Macchi and in Russia by Dux. Unlicenced copies, notably the Siemens-Schuckert D.I and the Euler D.I, were produced in Germany.
  The Nieuport 21 and 23 represented relatively minor alterations. Aerodynamic refinement led to the Clerget-powered 17bis.
context_section_description: Data from Those Classic Nieuports, The Nieuport 17
  General characteristics
  Crew: one
  Length: 5.80 m (19 ft 0 in) (Without optional cône de penetration)
  Wingspan: 8.16 m (26 ft 9 in)
  Height: 2.40 m (7 ft 10 in) (Without overwing gun and mounting)
  Wing area: 14.75 m² (158.8 sq ft)
  Airfoil: Type N
  Empty weight: 375 kg (827 lb)
  Gross weight: 560 kg (1,235 lb)
  Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9Ja 9-cylinder rotary engine, 82 kW (110 hp)  (nominal rated power, not measured power)
  Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch wood Eclair 4 or Levasseur 484 propellers, 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) diameter 
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 170 km/h (110 mph, 92 kn) 
  Endurance: 1.75 hours
  Service ceiling: 5,300 m (17,400 ft)
  Time to altitude: 11.5 min to 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
  Wing loading: 37.9 kg/m² (7.8 lb/sq ft)
  Power/mass: 0.15 kW/kg (0.091 hp/lb)
  Armament
  Guns: 
  (French service) 1 × synchronised Vickers machine gun and/or 1 × Lewis gun on upper wing mounting
  (British service) 1 × Lewis gun on Foster mounting on upper wing
  Rockets: 8 × Le Prieur rockets (rarely fitted)
  Avionics
  26 cm camera (some aircraft only)
caption: Nieuport 17 Type N airfoil drawings
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