Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during

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. The company was established at

Mülhausen Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace af ...

(today in France) in 1909 and soon became one of the country's leading producers of aircraft. It relocated to

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

in 1914 and to

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in 1916 and established a subsidiary in Vienna as Österreichisch-Ungarische Flugzeugfabrik Aviatik. During the war, the company became best known for its reconnaissance aircraft, the B.I and B.II, although the Austro-Hungarian subsidiary also produced a number of its own designs, including fighters such as the D.I.

History

The company was founded in December 1909 by the Alsatian Georges Chatel. II cover page It started with the license-production of

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aircraft;

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monoplanes and

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biplanes. From 1912, the factory started building its own successful biplanes, designed by Robert Wild. Just at the beginning of World War One, on 1 August 1914 the company was relocated to

due to French threat, and then to new facilities in

-Heiterblick in 1916. The company did not continue after the 1919

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Aircraft

Aviatik B.I The Aviatik B.I is a German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed and built by the Automobil und Aviatik AG company, who until then had produced copies of French designs. Design and development The first of indigenous Aviatik biplanes, desi ...

* Aviatik B.II *

Aviatik B.III __NOTOC__ The Aviatik B.III was a reconnaissance aircraft built in Austria-Hungary during World War I. Aviatik's Austro-Hungarian subsidiary had built the German-designed B.II, and now further developed this design by adding a more powerful engi ...

* Aviatik C.I *

Aviatik C.II The Aviatik C.I was an observation aircraft which came into service during World War I in April 1915. It was a development of the Aviatik B.I and B.II models, being one of first aircraft of the new German C class of armed biplanes. In the C.I ...

* Aviatik C.III *

Aviatik C.V The Aviatik C.V was an experimental reconnaissance biplane with a distinctive gull like upper wing. Not to be confused with the DFW C.V which was licence built by Aviatik as the Aviatik C.VI The Aviatik C.VI was a prototype German biplane obs ...

Aviatik (Ö) C.I The Aviatik C.I, the prototypes of which were known as Aviatik 30.14, Aviatik 30.15 and Aviatik 30.16, was an Austro-Hungarian 2-seat reconnaissance aircraft produced from 1917.(Note: the (Ö) is not part of the designation, but used to disambi ...

* Aviatik (Berg) D.I *

Aviatik (Berg) D.II The Aviatik (Berg) D.II, the prototypes of which were known as Aviatik 30.22 and Aviatik 30.38, was an Austro-Hungarian sesquiplane fighter aircraft prototype towards the end of the First World War. Development The D.II's fuselage was virtually ...

Aviatik D.III The Aviatik D.III was a German prototype single-seater fighter plane from the First World War, designed by Aviatik. It became the basis for the Aviatik D.IV and Aviatik D.V. In November 1917, the plane was first flown, using a 195 hp Benz Bz ...

* Aviatik D.VII

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* {{Authority control Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany Manufacturing companies established in 1909 1909 establishments in Germany 1919 disestablishments in Germany Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1919

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