Zeppelin-Staaken (sometimes Zeppelin Werke Staaken or Zeppelin-Werke GmbH), was a German

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 indust ...

originally located in

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the Gotha (district), district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine House of Wet ...

. The company built the largest aircraft of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, the "

Riesenflugzeug A ''Riesenflugzeug'' (plural ''Riesenflugzeuge'', German for "giant aircraft"), sometimes colloquially referred to in English as an R-plane, was any member of a class of large World War I German bombers, possessing at least three aircraft engines, ...

" (giant aircraft).Mondey, 1978. p 309.

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Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge The Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge () were a series of very large bomber aircraft - ''Riesenflugzeuge'' ("giant aircraft"), usually powered by four or more engines, designed and built in Germany from 1915 to 1919.Haddow, G.W. & Grosz, Peter M. ...

** Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV **

Zeppelin-Staaken R.V The Zeppelin-Staaken R.V was one of a series of large bomber A bomber is a military combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-lau ...

** Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI ** Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII **

Zeppelin-Staaken 8301 Zeppelin-Staaken (sometimes Zeppelin Werke Staaken or Zeppelin-Werke GmbH), was a German aircraft manufacturer originally located in Gotha. The company built the largest aircraft of World War I, the "Riesenflugzeug" (giant aircraft).Mondey, 1978. p ...

** Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV **

Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV was an Imperial German bomber of World War I. An incremental improvement to the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, this was one of a series of large strategic bombers called ''Riesenflugzeug A ''Riesenflugzeug'' (plural ''Riesenf ...

** Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI **

Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 The Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 was a revolutionary four-engine all-metal passenger monoplane designed in 1917 by Adolf Rohrbach and completed in 1919 at the Zeppelin-Staaken works outside Berlin, Germany. The E-4/20 was the first four-engine, all- ...

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Zeppelin-Staaken R.III German Military Aviation Service
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