BOB McLEOD COLLECTION
No. 13342. Nieuport 11 (C-IPOR c/n 006)
Photographed at Saxon Street Airport, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada, by Bob McLeod

Nieuport 11

05/15/2022. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This 7/8 scale replica was built in 2002 by Clayton C. Kesterson of Independence, Oregon and was registered to Clayton's son Erik C. Kesterson as N110DK. The aircraft received its CofA on January 24, 2003. Three weeks later, February 13, the aircraft sustained substantial damage following an aborted take off and subsequent nose over at the Independence State Airport, Independence, Oregon.

Erik Kesterson, an US Army Chief Warrant Officer assigned to the 9th Bn, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was one of seventeen soldiers that died when two Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawks collided in West-Mosul, Iraq, on November 15, 2003.

The Nieuport replica was sold to Joseph Allan Snowie of Bellingham, Washington, on April 11, 2007. Deregistered on December 20, 2016, the aircraft was exported to Canada, where it was registered as C-IPOR to John O'Reilly of Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, on February 1, 2017. Although on the Canadian register still registered to O'Reilly, he has donated in 2017 the replica to the National Air Force Museum of Canada (NAFMC), at CFB Trenton, Ontario. Since April 3, 2021, it is hanging from the ceiling in the three-story atrium of the Battle of Britain Building at the National Defence Headquarter in Ottawa."

Read the type remarks on page 14099.


Created January 31, 2018