The REP Type N was a military reconnaissance

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produced in France in 1914.Taylor 1989, p.758

Design and Development

It was a wire-braced, mid-wing monoplane of conventional design with fixed, tailskid undercarriage.Davilla & Soltan 2002, p.431 The fuselage was constructed of steel tube and was of triangular cross-section, with the apex on the ventral side. The pilot and observer sat in tandem, open cockpits. Lateral control was by

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Operational history

The type was selected by the ''

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'' to equip two squadrons,

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and

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. Type Ns from the former unit flew reconnaissance missions during the

Battle of Charleroi The Battle of Charleroi (french: Bataille de Charleroi) or the Battle of the Sambre, was fought on 21 August 1914, by the French Fifth Army and the German 2nd and 3rd armies, during the Battle of the Frontiers. The French were planning an attack a ...

in August 1914, and Type Ns from both units flew missions during the

First Battle of the Marne The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. It was fought in a collection of skirmishes around the Marne River Valley. It resulted in an Entente victory against the German armies in the ...

in September. Intelligence provided by reconnaissance aircraft proved a decisive factor in the Allied victory at the Marne.Lawson 1996, p.40 In January 1915, the two units merged and were re-equipped with

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s, but continued to operate the REP Type N at least as late as March. The Type N also formed the backbone of the

Ottoman Air Service The Aviation Squadrons of the Ottoman Empire were military aviation units of the Ottoman Army and Navy.Edward J. Erickson, ''Ordered To Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War'', "Appendix D The Ottoman Aviation Inspectorate a ...

in 1912, and these machines were used operationally during the

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and

Second Balkan War The Second Balkan War was a conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 ( O.S.) / 29 (N.S.) June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies r ...

in 1912–13. At the outbreak of war, two Ottoman Type Ns were seized while in transit through Serbia, and were put into Serbian military service. They were soon joined by a third machine, captured from the Ottoman forces, but the Serbs seem to have made little use of the type. By October 1914, Ottoman Type Ns were relegated to training duties.Davilla & Soltan 2002, p.432

Operators

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Serbian Air Force The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence ( sr-Cyrl, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије, Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazduhoplovna odbrana Vojske Srbije, Wa ...

Specifications (Two-seater)

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