page_title: Maxime Lenoir
section_title: Aerial service
hierarchical_section_title: Maxime Lenoir / Biography / Aerial service
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: L'aviateur Maxime Lenoir présenté dans le journal L'Illustration.
context_page_description: Adjutant Maxime Albert Lenoir was a pioneering World War I flying ace credited with eleven confirmed aerial victories, as well as eight unconfirmed.
context_section_description: The start of World War I saw Lenoir mobilized for military service. He applied for a transfer to aviation duty. He completed his military aviation training, receiving Military Pilot's Brevet No. 641, and after a few weeks delay, was assigned to Escadrille 18 to fly a Caudron. He downed an Aviatik on 5 June 1915, and became a balloon buster on the 15th. Lenoir then trained on single-seaters, and was posted to fly a Nieuport fighter with Escadrille 23 in early 1916. He scored his first fighter victory on 16 March 1916, and added eight more by 25 September, including shares with Jean Casale and Georges Lachmann. He was wounded twice that year, by shrapnel on 9 August and in aerial combat on 25 September.
  On the latter occasion, he was flying his new SPAD VII fighter. Lenoir was one of the first French fliers to be issued the new fighter. He was wounded while attacking a German three-seater that he shot down. It was his 11th and final confirmed victory.
  To the SPAD VII's ordinary markings, Lenoir added his initials on the left rim of the cockpit above a black silhouette of a man's head. Emblazoned down the fuselage's side was the slogan Trompe le Mort (Deceives death) and the numerals '111'.
  Maxime Albert Lenoir was killed in action on 25 October 1916.
caption: French aviator Maxime Lenoir stands beside a Nieuport 17 fighter aircraft in 1915.
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