Packard-Le Père LUSAC-11

LUSAC-11
The LUSAC-11 which broke the World altitude record in 1920 and 1921
General information
TypeFighter aircraft
National originUnited States of America
ManufacturerEngineering Division/Packard
Designer
Georges Lepère
Primary userUnited States Army Air Service
Number built30
History
First flight15 May 1918
Developed intoWaterman 3-L-400

The LUSAC-11 ("Lepère United States Army Combat") is an early American two-seat fighter aircraft. It was a French design, commissioned and built in the United States during World War I and ordered in large numbers by the United States Army Air Corps, but these were canceled at the end of the war, and only 30 were built. The type was used for experimental purposes, setting several altitude records during the 1920s.

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