The SPAD S.XIII is a French biplane fighter aircraft built by the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Derives and introduced into French air service in 1917 during the First World War, developed as an improved version of the earlier SPAD S.VII with a more powerful engine and twin synchronized machine guns firing through the propeller arc. Prized for its sturdy construction and its ability to dive at high speed without structural failure, a quality less robust rival designs of the period often lacked, the S.XIII was flown extensively by French, American, Italian and other Allied air units and became the mount of many of the war's leading fighter pilots, including the top-scoring American ace of the war, Eddie Rickenbacker. Manufactured in the thousands before the war's end, the SPAD S.XIII is remembered as one of the most successful and widely used Allied fighter aircraft of the First World War.
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The SPAD S.XIII is a French biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War, developed by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) from the earlier and highly successful SPAD S.VII.
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During early 1917, the French designer Louis Béchereau, spurred by the approaching obsolescence of the S.VII, decided to develop two new fighter aircraft, the S.XII and the S.XIII, both using a powerful new geared version of the successful Hispano-Suiza 8A engine.
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By the end of the First World War, the S.XIII had equipped virtually every fighter squadron of the Aéronautique Militaire.
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Biplane fighter
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[ Argentina; Belgium; Brazil; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece; Kingdom of Italy; Imperial Japan; Imperial Russia; Poland; Siam (Thailand); Spain; Turkey; Uruguay; United Kingdom; United States ]
Operated By: Brazilian Army, Operators
[ Argentina; Belgium; Brazil; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece; Kingdom of Italy; Imperial Japan; Imperial Russia; Poland; Siam (Thailand); Spain; Turkey; Uruguay; United Kingdom; United States ]
Operated By: French Armed Forces, Operators
[ Argentina; Belgium; Brazil; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece; Kingdom of Italy; Imperial Japan; Imperial Russia; Poland; Siam (Thailand); Spain; Turkey; Uruguay; United Kingdom; United States ]
Operated By: Spanish Armed Forces, Operators
[ Argentina; Belgium; Brazil; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece; Kingdom of Italy; Imperial Japan; Imperial Russia; Poland; Siam (Thailand); Spain; Turkey; Uruguay; United Kingdom; United States ]
Operated By: Turkish Armed Forces, Operators
[ Argentina; Belgium; Brazil; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece; Kingdom of Italy; Imperial Japan; Imperial Russia; Poland; Siam (Thailand); Spain; Turkey; Uruguay; United Kingdom; United States ]
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