Loire-Nieuport LN.42

The Loire-Nieuport LN.42 was the final development of the LN.411 which dispensed with the inverted gull wing and elevator endplates and used the much more powerful 1,100 hp (820 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12Y-51 engine. It was too late for the Second World War, making only a few short hops before France fell during the 1940 invasion of France when it was hidden from the Germans for the duration of the war. Flight trials resumed on 24 August 1945 and ran until 1947, however no interest was forthcoming of the now obsolete type and only one example was built.

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