Mike Sorry about the multiple posts above.
Митко Митков sends the following information. I have not corrected the spelling, which may be a result of auto-translate: I presume by steering wheel he means the control column:
I tried to register in a forum, but it gives me a system error. Please give the following information: The Bulgarians capture 5 Nieuport, 3 are French and 2 are English.
On 23 October 1916 in the Drama area was downloaded English Newport 12 with the number 8913 from 2 Wing R.N.A.S. pilot Jeffrey Kelvin Blandi and his observer are captured and sent to the camp in Plovdiv. This is Von Eshvege’s first victory. The plane landed in the 10th Infantry Division.
The steering wheel has a number 628. It is also assigned to the first Airplane Department located at Belitsa Airport. In 1918 the plane was already reported in Bozhurishte. October 12, 1916 Bryan Anthony Miller of the “A” squadron of R.N.A.S. based on Thassos returns from a bomber mission at the airport near Xanthi. His new airplane Newport 11 with number 3984 gets an engine problem and landed emergency four miles northwest of the airport. Miller was captured and sent to the camp in Plovdiv. The airplane was sent to Sofia. In his memoirs Bulgarian aviator Vladimir Balan mentions Nieuport captive number 2936. in our archive, under this number, there is a 90-horsepower engine on a Newrop airplane, but there is no mention of the machine. He also has two machine guns of unknown type, but with numbers 8869 and 8870. According to Balan’s memoirs, on this trophy airplane, the gunner Dimitar Angelov mounts a machine gun synchronizer and after the tests he has brought his identification signs and is sent to the front. Newport 11 has a machine gun on the upper wing, ie. it is not synchronized with the propeller, which is supposed to be the same machine