Smithsonian Air and Space Museum / This is the Nieuport 28C.1, developed in France in 1917. Having no similar aircraft of its own, the United States adapted the plane and used it to Richard Erwin                                           support U.S. troops during WW I. After the war, the U.S. Navy used the aircraft to test shipboard launching during 1919, 1920, and 1921. 8/10/2009