Etrich Flugzeugwerke (EFW) was a short-lived
aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. ...
founded by
Igo Etrich
Ignaz "Igo" Etrich (25 December 1879 – 4 February 1967) was an Austrian flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer.
Education
Etrich was born on Christmas Day 1879 in the Upper Old Town of Trutnov, Bohemia. He attended school in ...
.
The company became part of ''Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke'' in 1914,
[ which then, in turn, became part of ]Hansa-Brandenburg
Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke (more usually just Hansa-Brandenburg) was a German aircraft manufacturing company that operated during World War I. It was created in May 1914 by the purchase of ''Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke'' by Cam ...
.
Some of the planes were manufactured in Trautenau (today Trutnov
Trutnov (; german: Trautenau) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 29,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
Administrative parts
Trutnov is ...
, Czech Republic) and others in Liebau (today Lubawka
Lubawka (german: Liebau) is a town in Poland, in Lower Silesia Voivodship, in Kamienna Góra County. It is the administrative seat of Gmina Lubawka. It lies in the Sudetes near to the border with the Czech Republic on the way across the Lubaw ...
, Poland).
Aircraft produced
* Etrich Taube
The Etrich ''Taube'', also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler ''Taube'', was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in ...
1910
* Etrich VII
The Etrich VII monoplane was designed by Igo Etrich and first flown in 1911. Some were sold to European militaries, including Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Specifications
Operators
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:* Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troo ...
1911
See also
*Volksflugzeug
The ''Volksflugzeug'' (People's Aircraft) was a grand Nazi-era scheme for the mass-production of a small and simple airplane in the 1930s. It was one of the attempts of the Nazi regime to use consumer technologies as a propaganda tool.
Unlike th ...
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Austria
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