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Central Powers The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,german: Mittelmächte; hu, Központi hatalmak; tr, İttifak Devletleri / ; bg, Централни сили, translit=Tsentralni sili was one of the two main coalitions that fought in ...
in World War I


Austro-Hungarian aircraft

Built specifically for or in Austria-Hungary, whose designation system was based on the German one, but with duplications for unrelated designs. German designs used by Austria-Hungary and Germany are in German section.


A & B types (unarmed monoplanes and biplanes)

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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 ...
(1916) * Etrich Taube (1911) * Fokker B.I (1915)Gray, 1970, p.339 *
Fokker B.II (1916) __NOTOC__ The Fokker M 10 was a two-seater reconnaissance / trainer biplane with single-bay wings equipped with wing-warping controls for roll, powered by a 7-cylinder 80 hp Oberursel U.0 engine. Several M 10 aircraft were purchased by the I ...
* Fokker B.III – reconnaissance/fighter *
Hansa-Brandenburg B.I The Hansa-Brandenburg B.I was an unarmed military trainer and reconnaissance biplane of World War I, flown by the Austro-Hungarian Air Service. Early models were known internally to the Hansa-Brandenburg firm as the type D, while later models wi ...
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Lohner B.I The Lohner B.I was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I.Taylor 1989, 610 As Lohner strove to perfect the design, a variety of increasingly powerful engines were fitted, reflected in a range of militar ...
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Lohner B.II The Lohner B.II (originally designated Type C) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a development of the pre-war B.I design, incorporating changes requested by the Austro-Hungarian army, b ...
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Lohner B.III The Lohner B.II (originally designated Type C) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a development of the pre-war Lohner B.I, B.I design, incorporating changes requested by the Austro-Hungar ...
* Lohner B.IV *
Lohner B.V The Lohner B.II (originally designated Type C) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a development of the pre-war B.I design, incorporating changes requested by the Austro-Hungarian army, b ...
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Lohner B.VI The Lohner B.II (originally designated Type C) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a development of the pre-war B.I design, incorporating changes requested by the Austro-Hungarian army, b ...
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Lohner B.VII The unarmed Lohner B.VII and its armed derivative the C.I were military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I.Taylor 1989, 610–11 They were the ultimate developments in a family of aircraft that had begun with ...
(1915)


C types (armed two seat biplanes)

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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 ...
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Hansa-Brandenburg C.I The Hansa-Brandenburg C.I, also known as Type LDD, was a 2-seater armed single-engine reconnaissance biplane designed by Ernst Heinkel, who worked at that time for the parent company in Germany. The C.I had similarities with the earlier B.I (Typ ...
* Knoller C.I (1916) * Knoller C.II (1916) *
Lloyd C.I The Lloyd C.I was a reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary shortly before and during the First World War, and which formed the basis for a number of other closely related types.Taylor 1989, 581 Design and development The C.1 was ...
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Lloyd C.II The Lloyd C.II and its derivatives, the C.III and C.IV were reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during the First World War.Taylor 1989, 581 They were based on the Lloyd company's pre-war C.I design, and like it, were conventiona ...
(1915) * Lloyd C.III *
Lloyd C.IV The Lloyd C.II and its derivatives, the C.III and C.IV were reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during the First World War.Taylor 1989, 581 They were based on the Lloyd company's pre-war C.I design, and like it, were conventiona ...
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Lloyd C.V The Lloyd C.V was a reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during the First World War.Taylor 1989, 581 It was a departure from Lloyd's previous reconnaissance types, which had all been based on a pre-war design. The C.V was a more ...
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Lohner C.I The unarmed Lohner B.VII and its armed derivative the C.I were military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I.Taylor 1989, 610–11 They were the ultimate developments in a family of aircraft that had begun with ...
(1916) * Phonix C.I (1918)


D types (''Doppeldecker'' – armed single seaters)

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Aviatik (Berg) D.I The Aviatik (Berg) D.I, was a single-engine, single-seater biplane fighter that was developed and manufactured by the Austro-Hungarian branch of German aircraft company Aviatik. It was also known as Berg D.I or the ''Berg Fighter'', because it ...
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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 ...
(1917) * Hansa-Brandenburg D.I (1916) *
Phönix D.I The Phönix D.I, with the D.II and D.III variants, was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian First World War biplane fighter built by the Phönix Flugzeug-Werke and based on the Hansa-Brandenburg D.I. Development The Phönix D.I was the second d ...
(1917) * Phönix D.II * Phönix D.III *
Fokker Dr.I The Fokker Dr.I (''Dreidecker'', "triplane" in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the ...
triplane


G types (''Grossflugzeuge'' – large bombers)

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Hansa-Brandenburg G.I The Hansa-Brandenburg G.I was a bomber aircraft used to equip the KuKLFT, Austro-Hungarian aviation corps in World War I. It was a mostly conventional large, three-bay biplane with staggered wings of slightly unequal span. The pilot and bombardi ...
(1917)


Seaplanes

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Lohner L The Lohner L was a reconnaissance flying boat produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a two-bay biplane of typical configuration for the flying boats of the day, with its Pusher configuration, pusher engine mounted on struts in th ...
(1915) * Hansa-Brandenburg CC (1916)Designed for Austria-Hungary and operated by both Germany and Austria-Hungary * Hansa-Brandenburg W.13


Bulgarian aircraft

Lacking an indigenous aviation industry capable of producing military aircraft, Bulgaria primarily relied on Germany for aircraft.


German aircraft


A & B types (unarmed monoplanes and biplanes)

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AEG B.I The AEG B.I was a German two-seat biplane unarmed reconnaissance aircraft produced in very small numbers in 1914. It formed the basis for the more successful B- and C-type aircraft from AEG. Operators * **''Luftstreitkräfte The ''Deutsc ...
(1914)Gray, 1970, p.232 * AEG B.II (1914) * AEG B.III (1915) *
Albatros B.I The Albatros B.I, (post-war company designation L.1) was a German military reconnaissance aircraft designed in 1913 and which saw service during World War I. Design and development The B.I was a two-seat biplane of conventional configuration th ...
(1913)Gray, 1970, p.252 * Albatros B.II (1914) * Albatros B.III (1915) * Aviatik B.I (1914) *
Aviatik B.II ''Note:'' Not to be confused with the Austro-Hungarian Aviatik B.II series 32, 32.7 and 34 which were different aircraft. The Aviatik B.II was a reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I. Design and development The (German) Av ...
(1914)Gray, 1970, p.280 * BFW Monoplane 1918 *
DFW B.I The DFW B.I (factory designation MD 14), was one of the earliest German aircraft to see service during World War I, and one of the numerous "B-class" unarmed, two-seat observation biplanes of the German military in 1914, but with a distinctive ...
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DFW B.II The DFW B.I (factory designation MD 14), was one of the earliest German aircraft to see service during World War I, and one of the numerous "B-class" unarmed, two-seat observation biplanes of the German military in 1914, but with a distinctive a ...
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DFW Mars __NOTOC__ The DFW Mars was an early German military utility aircraft built in 1913 and was the first original design manufactured by DFW. The aircraft was produced in both monoplane and biplane versions, which shared a common fuselage and empenn ...
(1913) * Euler B.I * Euler B.IIGray, 1970, p.327 *
Euler B.III The LVG B.I was a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''. Development LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it started design, in 1912, of the comp ...
* Fokker A.I *
Fokker A.II The Fokker M.5 was an unarmed single-seat monoplane aircraft designed and built by Anthony Fokker in 1913. It served as a light reconnaissance aircraft with the German army at the outbreak of World War I and was the basis for the first successfu ...
Gray, 1970, p.334 *
Fokker A.III The Fokker M.5 was an unarmed single-seat monoplane aircraft designed and built by Anthony Fokker in 1913. It served as a light reconnaissance aircraft with the German army at the outbreak of World War I and was the basis for the first successfu ...
(1915) * Fokker M.7 *
Germania type B Germania ( ; ), also called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman province of the same name, was a large historical region in north- ...
(1915)Gray, 1970, p.387 * Gödecker B type * Gotha LD.1/2/6/7 * Gotha LD.5 * Gotha LE.3 ''Taube'' * Halberstadt type B * Halberstadt B.IGray, 1970, p.418 * Halberstadt B.II *
Halberstadt B.III The Halberstadt B-types of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke were two-seat unarmed reconnaissance/training aircraft of the German Air Force in the First World War. Development In 1914, Halberstadt developed a biplane with the Oberursel U.0 rotar ...
* Hannuschke monoplane (1915)Gray, 1970, p.428 * Jeannin Taube (1914)Gray, 1970, p.429 *
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(1915) * LVG B.IGray, 1970, pp.169-172 & 472 *
LVG B.II The LVG B.I was a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''. Development LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it started design, in 1912, of the comp ...
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LVG B.III The LVG B.I was a 1910s Germany, German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by LVG (aircraft manufacturer), Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''. Development LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it ...
* NFW B.I * Otto pusher (1914) * Otto B.I (1914)Gray, 1970, p.495 * Pfalz A.I & A.II (license-built Morane-Saulnier L)Gray, 1970, p.496 * Rumpler Taube (1911) * Rumpler 4A/B.I *
Sablatnig B.I The Sablatnig SF-5 was a reconnaissance seaplane produced in Germany during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.787 Design and development Designed to meet a specification by the Imperial German Navy for a higher-powered replacement for the Sabl ...
Gray, 1970, p.537


C types (armed two seat biplanes)

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AEG C.I The AEG C.I was a two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft produced in small numbers from March 1915 by the German company Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). It was essentially an AEG B.II armed with a single 7.92 mm (.312 in ...
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AEG C.II The AEG C.II was a German two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft produced in small numbers from October 1915. It was a slightly smaller version of the C.I with better performance, redesigned cockpit for both pilot and observer/bombardier, new r ...
(1915)Gray, 1970, p.234 *
AEG C.III The AEG C.III was a two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft, a single prototype of which was built during World War I. The aircraft featured an unusual fuselage design that completely filled the gap between the upper and lower sets of wings, to ...
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AEG C.IV The AEG C.IV was a German two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft that entered service in 1916. Design and development The C.IV was based on the AEG C.II, but featured a larger wingspan and an additional forward-firing Spandau-type 7.92 mm ...
* AEG C.V *
AEG C.VI Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AEG ...
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AEG C.VII The AEG C.VII was a prototype two-seat biplane reconnaissance 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 ...
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AEG C.VIII The AEG C.VIII was a prototype two-seat reconnaissance aircraft of World War I.Gray and Thetford 1962, p.238. Two examples were built, based on the successful C.IV design, one of biplane configuration, the other a triplane A triplane is a ...
Gray, 1970, p.237 *
AEG C.VIII Dr Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AEG ...
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AGO C.I The AGO C.I was a First World War German pusher reconnaissance biplane that used a pod-and-boom configuration. Development The crew and pusher engine shared a central nacelle, and the twin booms carried the tail and the four-wheeled landing ge ...
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AGO C.II The AGO C.II was a German reconnaissance biplane of World War I. It was essentially a slightly redesigned version of the manufacturer's C.I design with a more powerful engine and 3-bay wings. Two examples were equipped with floats (designation ...
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AGO C.III The AGO C.III was a German reconnaissance biplane 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 Rus ...
* AGO C.IV * AGO C.VIIGray, 1970, p.249 *
AGO C.VIII The AGO C.VIII was a German reconnaissance aircraft built by AGO Flugzeugwerke during World War I. Design The C.VIII was a derivative of the AGO C.IV The AGO C.IV was a First World War German biplane reconnaissance aircraft. Development A ...
* Albatros C.I (1915) * Albatros C.II * Albatros C.III (1916) *
Albatros C.IV The Albatros C.IV, (Company post-war designation L.12). was a German military reconnaissance aircraft built in the autumn of 1915 by Albatros Flugzeugwerke. It was a single-engined biplane, and was based on the Albatros C.III, with which it shared ...
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Albatros C.V The Albatros C.V was a German military reconnaissance aircraft which saw service during World War I. Design and development The C.V was Albatros Flugzeugwerke's first revision of their B- and C-type reconnaissance aircraft since Ernst Heinkel l ...
Gray, 1970, p.256 * Albatros C.VI * Albatros C.VIIGray, 1970, pp.31-33 *
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* Albatros C.IX *
Albatros C.X The Albatros C.X was a German military reconnaissance aircraft that saw service during World War I. Design and development The C.X was essentially an enlarged development of the Albatros C.VII designed to take advantage of the new Mercedes D.IV ...
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Albatros C.XII The Albatros C.XII was a German military reconnaissance aircraft which saw service during World War I. It differed markedly from previous Albatros C-type aircraft by adopting an elliptical-section fuselage similar to that of the Albatros D.V. The ...
* Albatros C.XIIIGray, 1970, p.258 * Albatros C.XIV *
Albatros C.XV __NOTOC__ The Albatros C.XV was a German military reconnaissance aircraft developed during World War I. It was essentially a refinement of the C.XII, which had been put into production in 1918. The war ended before any examples became operation ...
Gray, 1970, p.259 * Aviatik C.I (1916)Gray, 1970, pp.59-63 *
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 ...
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Aviatik C.III The Aviatik C.I was an aerial reconnaissance, observation aircraft which came into service during World War I in April 1915. It was a development of the Aviatik B.I and Aviatik B.II, B.II models, being one of first aircraft of the new German C c ...
* Aviatik C.VGray, 1970, p.281 * Aviatik C.VI * Aviatik C.VII * Aviatik C.VIII * Aviatik C.IX * DFW C.IGray, 1970, p.319 * DFW C.II * DFW C.IV *
DFW C.V The DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI, and DFW F37 were a family of German reconnaissance aircraft first used in 1916 in World War I. They were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer ...
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DFW C.VI The DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI, and DFW F37 were a family of German reconnaissance aircraft first used in 1916 in World War I. They were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer ...
Gray, 1970, p.321 * Euler CGray, 1970, p.328 *
Fokker C.I The Fokker C.I was a German reconnaissance biplane under development at the end of World War I. The design was essentially an enlarged Fokker D.VII fighter with two seats and a 138 kW (185 hp) BMW IIIa engine. The C.I was originally dev ...
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Friedrichshafen C.I Friedrichshafen FF.33 was a German single-engined reconnaissance three-bay wing structure biplane, using twin floats, designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1914 for the ''Marine-Fliegerabteilung'' aviation forces of the ''Kaiserliche Mar ...
* Germania C.I * Germania C.IIGray, 1970, p.389 * Germania C.IV * Halberstadt C.I *
Halberstadt C.III The Halberstadt C.III was a German single-engined reconnaissance biplane of World War I, built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. Design The Halberstadt C.III was a structurally similar C.I equipped with a Benz Bz.IV engine with a power of 200&nbs ...
Gray, 1970, p.419 *
Halberstadt C.V The Halberstadt C.V was a German single-engined reconnaissance biplane of World War I, built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. Derived from the Halberstadt C.III, with a more powerful supercharged 160 kW (220 hp) Benz Bz.IVü engine, ...
* Halberstadt C.VII *
Halberstadt C.VIII The Halberstadt C.VIII was a prototype two-seat general-purpose biplane built by Halberstadt during World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in histor ...
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Halberstadt C.IX The Halberstadt C.IX was a German single-engined reconnaissance biplane of World War I, built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke or Halberstadt was a German aircraft manufacturer. It was formed on 9 April 1912 under ...
Gray, 1970, p.421 *
Hannover C.I 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 ...
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LFG Roland C.II The LFG Roland C.II, usually known as the ''Walfisch'' (Whale), was an advanced German reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was manufactured by Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft G.m.b.H. Characteristics The C.II had much lower drag than comparab ...
(1916) * LFG Roland C.III * LFG Roland C.V *
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* LVG C.I *
LVG C.II The LVG C.II was a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed at the Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the '' Luftstreitkräfte''. Development The C.II was developed from the LVG B.I, with the pilot and observer positions reversed, ad ...
(1916) * LVG C.III *
LVG C.IV The LVG C.II was a 1910s Germany, German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed at the LVG (aircraft manufacturer), Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''. Development The C.II was developed from the LVG B.I, with the pilot a ...
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LVG C.V The LVG C.V was a reconnaissance aircraft produced in large numbers in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, 615 Design and development The C.V was a conventional two-bay biplane design of its day, with unstaggered wings of equal span and tan ...
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LVG C.VI The LVG C.VI was a German two-seat reconnaissance and artillery spotting aircraft used during World War I. Development The aircraft was designed by Willy Sabersky-Müssigbrodt and developed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (LVG) in 1917. The C.VI ...
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LVG C.VII Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (L.V.G. or LVG) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal (Berlin), Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman Aviation Works, Farman-type aircraft. The company co ...
* LVG C.VIII *
LVG C.IX Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (L.V.G. or LVG) was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin- Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman-type aircraft. The company constructed many reconnaissance and light bombe ...
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Otto C.I The Otto C.I, also known as the Otto KD.15, was a German two-seat biplane reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of the First World War designed and produced by Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik. The C.I was a rare example of an aircraft flown by the Central Po ...
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Pfalz C.I The Rumpler C.IV was a German single-engine, two-seat reconnaissance biplane. It was a development of C.III with different tail surfaces and using a Mercedes D.IVa engine in place of the C.III's Benz Bz.IV. The Rumpler 6B 2 was a single-seat ...
(license-built Rumpler C.IV)Gray, 1970, p.508 *
Rumpler C.I Entering service in 1915, the Rumpler C.I, (company designation 5A 2), two-seater single-engine reconnaissance biplane, was one of the first German C-type aircraft, and also one of the longest serving in its class during World War I, being retired ...
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Rumpler C.III The Rumpler C.III (factory designation 6A 5) was a biplane military reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.771 Development It was a development of the Rumpler C.I design incorporating many aerodynamic refi ...
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Rumpler C.IV The Rumpler C.IV was a German single-engine, two-seat reconnaissance biplane. It was a development of C.III with different tail surfaces and using a Mercedes D.IVa engine in place of the C.III's Benz Bz.IV. The Rumpler 6B 2 was a single-sea ...
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Rumpler C.V The Rumpler C.III (factory designation 6A 5) was a biplane military reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.771 Development It was a development of the Rumpler C.I design incorporating many aerodynamic refi ...
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Rumpler C.VI The Rumpler C.VI was a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft used by the Germans during the First World War. The aircraft was designed, along with the C.VII, based on the previous success of high-altitude Zeppelins, from which the engine was al ...
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Rumpler C.VII The Rumpler C.VII was a military reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p. 771. It was developed from the C.IV and optimised for high-altitude missions that would allow it to operate at heights that would render ...
* Rumpler C.VIII *
Rumpler C.IX The Rumpler C.IX was a German single-engine, two-seat reconnaissance biplane of World War I. Development At the end of 1916, the Rumpler design bureau, led by Edmund Rumpler, conceived the two-seat reconnaissance 7C 1 alongside the single seat 7 ...
* Rumpler C.X *
Sablatnig C.I The Sablatnig C.I was a conventional C-type reconnaissance two-seater aircraft developed and built by Sablatnig in Berlin, Germany in 1917. It was a two-bay biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above t ...
* Sablatnig C.II *
Sablatnig C.III The Sablatnig C.III was a monoplane C-type reconnaissance two-seater aircraft developed and built by Sablatnig in Berlin, Germany, in 1918. Design The C.III monoplane was of wooden construction with a plywood-covered fuselage and fabric coverin ...


CL types (close support & two seat fighters)

* BFW CL.IGray, 1970. pp.288-290 * BFW CL.II * BFW CL.III * Daimler CL.I * Halberstadt CL.II *
Halberstadt CL.IV The Halberstadt CL.IV was a German ground attack aircraft of World War I. Design and development Karl Thies, chief designer of the Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke, G.m.b.H., designed the CL.IV as a replacement for the CL.II. As the CL.II had proven ...
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Halberstadt CLS.I The Germania C.I was a prototype two-seat general-purpose biplane built by Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke, Halberstadt during World War I. Design and development Halberstadt based the CLS.I on the earlier Halberstadt CL.IV, CL.IV design, with mod ...
* Hannover CL.II *
Hannover CL.III The Hannover CL.III was a German military aircraft of World War I. It was a two-seat multi-role aircraft, primarily used as a ground attack machine. Like the other Hannover "light-C-class", or "CL" designated aircraft designed by Hermann Dorner, ...
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Hannover CL.IV The Hannover C.IV was a prototype escort fighter built in Germany during World War I, which formed the basis for a passenger aircraft following the war. Derived from the Hannover CL.II, the C.IV shared the same basic conventional biplane configura ...
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Hannover CL.V The Hannover CL.V was a biplane ground-attack aircraft built in Germany during World War I, which saw some service and additional production in Norway following the war. Development Derived from the Hannover CL.II, the CL.V shared the same conve ...
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Junkers CL.I The Junkers CL.I was a ground-attack aircraft developed in Germany during World War I. Its construction was undertaken by Junkers under the designation J 8 as proof of Hugo Junkers' belief in the monoplane, after his firm had been required by the ...
(1917)


D types (''Doppeldecker'' – armed single seaters)

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AEG D.I The AEG D.I was a biplane fighter of World War I. Three prototypes were ordered, but after the first two were involved in serious crashes, one of which killed flying ace Walter Höhndorf on September 5, 1917, development was cancelled. A triplan ...
(1917) * AGO DV.3 (1915)Gray, 1970, p.251 *
Albatros D.I The Albatros D.I was a German fighter aircraft used during World War I. Although its operational career was short, it was the first of the Albatros D types which equipped the bulk of the German and Austrian fighter squadrons (''Jagdstaffeln'') fo ...
(1916)Gray, 1970, pp.39-44 *
Albatros D.II The Albatros D.II was a German fighter aircraft used during World War I. After a successful combat career in the early '' Jagdstaffeln'', it was gradually superseded by the Albatros D.III. Design and development Albatros designers Robert Thelen ...
(1916) * Albatros D.III (1916)Also built in Austria-Hungary * Albatros D.IV (1916) *
Albatros D.V The Albatros D.V is a fighter aircraft built by the Albatros Flugzeugwerke and used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. The D.V was the final development of the Albatros D.I family and the last Albatro ...
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Albatros D.VI Albatros D.VI was the designation given to a prototype single-seat twin-boom pusher biplane built in 1917 in Germany. It was armed with a fixed LMG 08/15 machine gun and a fixed Becker Type M2 cannon. The aircraft's undercarriage was damaged o ...
* Albatros D.VII * Albatros D.VIII *
Albatros D.IX Albatros D.IX was a German prototype single-seat fighter built in early 1918. It differed from previous marks by using a simplified fuselage with a flat bottom and slab sides. The wings and tail were similar to those of the Albatros D.VII. Power ...
(1918) * Albatros D.X * Albatros D.XI (1918) * Albatros D.XII (1918) * Aviatik D.I (license-built Halberstadt D.II) * Aviatik D.II (1916) * Aviatik D.III (1917) * Aviatik D.IVGray, 1970, p.286 * Aviatik D.V * Aviatik D.VI (1918) *
Aviatik D.VII The Aviatik D.VII was a German prototype single-seater fighter aircraft of the First World War, designed by Aviatik. Built to participate in the Third D-Type Contest of October 1918, it saw no military service. The only real major change from the ...
(1918) * Caspar D.IGray, 1970, p.314 *
Daimler D.I The Daimler D.I (also known by the company designation L6) was a German fighter aircraft of World War I. It was a conventional biplane design with a very small interplane gap - the top wing nearly touched the top of the fuselage. Power was prov ...
(1918) * Daimler D.II *
DFW D.I __NOTOC__ The DFW D.I was a German fighter aircraft produced during World War I. Design and development The first DFW D.I prototype was similar to the DFW Floh __NOTOC__ The DFW T.28 Floh ( en, Flea) was a small German biplane fighter pr ...
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Euler D.I The Euler D.I was a German single-seat fighter based on the French Nieuport 17. After seeing the success of the French Nieuport 11 at the front, German designer August Euler set about to create a German aircraft based on the Nieuport design. Th ...
(1916)(copy of Nieuport)Gray, 1970, p.329 * Euler D.IIGray, 1970, p.330 *
Fokker D.I The Fokker D.I (company designation M.18) was a development of the D.II fighter. The D.I was also flown in Austro-Hungarian service as a fighter trainer aircraft under the designation B.III. Confusing the matter further, both the D.II and D.I ar ...
(1916)Gray, 1970, pp.87-90 * Fokker D.II (1916)Gray, 1970, pp.91-94 *
Fokker D.III The Fokker D.III (Fokker designation M.19) was a German single-seat fighter aircraft of World War I. It saw limited frontline service before being withdrawn from combat in December 1916. Design and development The M.19 began as an effort to impr ...
(1916) * Fokker D.IV (1916) *
Fokker D.V The Fokker D.V (Fokker designation M.22) was a German biplane fighter 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 mu ...
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Fokker D.VI The Fokker D.VI was a German fighter aircraft built in limited numbers at the end of World War I. The D.VI served in the German and Austro-Hungarian air services. Design and development In late 1917, Fokker-Flugzeugwerke built two small biplane ...
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Fokker D.VII The Fokker D.VII was a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Germany produced around 3,300 D.VII aircraft in the second half of 1918. In service with the ''Luftstreitkräfte'', the D.VII qu ...
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Fokker D.VIII The Fokker E.V was a German parasol-monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The E.V was the last Fokker design to become operational with the ''Luftstreitkräfte,'' entering service in the last mon ...
(monoplane originally E.V) (1918)Gray, 1970, pp.109-112 * Friedrichshafen D.IGray, 1970, p.383 * Friedrichshafen D.II * Germania type C/K.D.D.Gray, 1970, p.388 *
Halberstadt D.I The Halberstadt D.I was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Germany in 1916 as a scaled down version of the firm's earlier B.II two seater. It was a conventional, two-bay biplane with staggered wings of nearly equal span and fixed, tailskid un ...
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Halberstadt D.II The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through the period ...
(1915)Gray, 1970, pp.146-149 *
Halberstadt D.III The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by Germany, German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through t ...
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Halberstadt D.IV The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by Germany, German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through t ...
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Halberstadt D.V The Halberstadt D.II was a biplane fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by German aircraft company Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke. It was adopted by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Army Air Service) and served through the period ...
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Junkers D.I The Junkers D.I (factory designation J 9) was a monoplane fighter aircraft produced in Germany late in World War I, significant for becoming the first all-metal fighter to enter service. The prototype, a private venture by Junkers named the J 7, ...
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Kondor D.6 The Kondor D 6 was a prototype Germany, German biplane fighter aircraft flown in 1918. In the interests of better upward vision for the pilot, its upper wing was in two halves, separated over the central fuselage. Its development was soon abando ...
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Kondor D.7 The Kondor D 7 was a prototype Germany, German single seat biplane fighter aircraft, fighter built over the winter of 1917-18. It was not a success and its development was soon abandoned. Design and development In the summer of 1917 Kondor follo ...
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LFG Roland D.I The LFG Roland D.I was a fighter aircraft produced in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, 576 It was a single-seat aircraft based originally on the Roland C.II two-seat reconnaissance type. It shared its predecessor's unusual design feature o ...
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LFG Roland D.II The LFG Roland D.II was a German single-seat fighter of World War I. The type was manufactured by Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft, and also by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke under license. Design and development The D.II used a plywood monocoque fuselage. Two l ...
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LFG Roland D.III The LFG Roland D.III was a fighter aircraft produced in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, 576 Design and development The D.III was a further development of the D.I fighter.''World Aircraft Information Files'' File 900 Sheet 06 These mach ...
(1916) * LFG Roland D.IV (also designated Dr.I) (1917) * LFG Roland D.V *
LFG Roland D.VI The Roland D.VI was a German fighter aircraft built at the end of World War I. It lost a fly-off to the Fokker D.VII, but production went ahead anyway as insurance against problems with the Fokker. Design and development The Roland D.VI was des ...
(1917) * LFG Roland D.VII (1918) * LFG Roland D.VIII (1918) * LFG Roland D.IX (1917) *
LFG Roland D.XIII The Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) Roland D.VII was a German single seat, single engine biplane fighter aircraft built during World War I. Problems with its underdeveloped V-8 engine prevented its production. Design and development The D.VII ...
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LFG Roland D.XIV The Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) Roland D.VII was a German single seat, single engine biplane fighter aircraft built during World War I. Problems with its underdeveloped V-8 engine prevented its production. Design and development The D.VII ...
* LFG Roland D.XV (1918) *
LFG Roland D.XVI The LFG Roland D.XVI, initially designated the LFG Roland E.I, was a single-seat, single-engine, parasol wing German fighter aircraft flown close to the end of World War I. Only two were built. Design and development The D.XVI had a fully can ...
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LFG Roland D.XVII The LFG Roland D.XVII was a single-seat, single-engine, parasol wing Germany, German fighter aircraft flown close to the end of World War I. Only one was built. Design and development The D.XVII was the last of LFG's line of single-seat fighter ...
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LVG D.II The LVG D.II (company designation D 12) was a German fighter plane built by LVG in 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 i ...
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LVG D.III __NOTOC__ The LVG D.III was a German fighter plane built by LVG in World War I. Design The D.III was similar to the LVG D.II in that it was a single-seat biplane fighter with wings of unequal span and a plywood covered semi-monocoque fuselage. ...
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LVG D.IV __NOTOC__ The LVG D.IV was a German fighter plane built by LVG in World War I. Design The D.IV was similar to the D.III in having a plywood covered semi-monocoque fuselage, but the 195hp Benz Bz IIIb V-8 direct drive engine allowed for a cleane ...
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LVG D.V __NOTOC__ The LVG D.V was a prototype German biplane fighter built by LVG in World War I. Design The D.V was a single-seat biplane fighter which featured a slab-sided plywood-covered fuselage as well as equal span wings, both of which had strai ...
* LVG D.VI * Märkische D.I * Naglo D.II (1918) * Pfalz D type * Pfalz D.I (license-built LFG Roland D.I) (1916) * Pfalz D.II & IIa (license-built LFG Roland D.II) (1916) * Pfalz D.III & IIIa (1917) * Pfalz D.IV *
Pfalz D.VI The Pfalz D.VI was a German sesquiplane fighter aircraft from World War I. It was not put into production. Design and development The D.VI was a single bay sesquiplane with parallel chord wings which had angled tips The lower planes were sm ...
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Pfalz D.VII The Pfalz D.VII was a German biplane fighter aircraft from World War I. It was not put into production. Design and development The D.VII was a single- bay biplane with staggered, parallel- chord wings. It had simple parallel interplane struts ...
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Pfalz D.VIII The Pfalz D.VIII was a German 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 ...
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Pfalz D.XII The Pfalz D.XII was a German fighter aircraft built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke. Designed by Rudolph Gehringer as a successor to the Pfalz D.III, the D.XII entered service in significant numbers near the end of the First World War. It was the last P ...
(1918) * Pfalz D.XIV *
Pfalz D.XV The Pfalz D.XV was a German single seat fighter aircraft which was approved for production right at the end of World War I, too late to enter service. Design and development The D.XV was last of the series of biplane fighter aircraft, fighters ...
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Rumpler D.I The Rumpler D.I (factory designation 8D1) was a fighter-reconnaissance aircraft produced in Germany at the end of World War I.Taylor 1989, pp. 771–772. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with wings of unequal span braced by I-struts.''Th ...
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Siemens-Schuckert D.I The Siemens-Schuckert D.I was a single-seat fighter built by Siemens-Schuckert Werke in 1916. It was a German copy of the French Nieuport 17 that was obsolete by the time it was available in numbers, so that it served mainly as an advanced train ...
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Siemens-Schuckert D.III __NOTOC__ The Siemens-Schuckert D.III was a German single-seat fighter built by Siemens-Schuckert Werke. The D.III was a development of the earlier Siemens-Schuckert D.IIc prototype.Green and Swanborough 1994, p. 530. The D.III was an (nearly) equ ...
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Siemens-Schuckert D.IV The Siemens-Schuckert D.IV was a late-World War I fighter aircraft from Siemens-Schuckert (SSW). It reached service too late and was produced in too few numbers to have any effect on the war effort. Earlier designs Siemens-Schuckert's first prod ...
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Zeppelin-Lindau D.I The Zeppelin D.I, or Zeppelin-Lindau D.I or Zeppelin D.I (Do), as named in German documents, also sometimes referred to postwar as the Dornier D.I or Dornier-Zeppelin D.I, for the designer,Grosz, 1998, p.12 was a single-seat all-metal stressed s ...
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Dr & F types (''Dreidecker'' – triplane fighters)

* AEG Dr.I (1917) *
Albatros Dr.I The Albatros Dr. I was a German fighter triplane A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are not normally included in this count, although they occasionally ...
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Aviatik Dr.I The Aviatik 30.24 was a prototype Austro-Hungarian triplane fighter built by Aviatik in World War I. Design In April 1917, through his employer, Julius von Berg offered the aviation arsenal (Fliegerarsenal, abbreviated Flars) to purchase aircra ...
* DFW Dr.IGray, 1970, p.324 *
Euler Dr.I Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
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Fokker Dr.I The Fokker Dr.I (''Dreidecker'', "triplane" in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became famous as the ...
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Pfalz Dr.I The Pfalz Dr.I was a German fighter prototype of World War I. Official interest in the potential of the triplane A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are n ...
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Pfalz Dr.II The Pfalz Dr.II was a German triplane fighter prototype of World War I built by ''Pfalz Flugzeugwerke Pfalz Flugzeugwerke was a World War I German aircraft manufacturer, located at the Speyer airfield in the Palatinate (German: Pfalz). They a ...
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Siemens-Schuckert DDr.I The Siemens-Schuckert DDr.I was a World War I German twin engine, push-pull configuration triplane fighter aircraft. Only one was built, crashing on its first flight. Design and development The unusual DDr.I was one of the first aircraft to ha ...
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E types (''Eindecker'' – armed monoplanes)

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Fokker E.I The Fokker E.I was the first fighter aircraft to enter service with the Luftstreitkräfte, Fliegertruppe of the German Army (German Empire), Deutsches Heer in World War I. Its arrival at the front in mid-1915 marked the start of a period known as ...
(1915)Gray, 1970, pp.82-86 *
Fokker E.II The Fokker E.II was the second variant of the German Fokker Eindecker single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft of World War I. The E.II was essentially a Fokker E.I with the 75 kW (100 hp) Oberursel U.I 9-cylinder rotary engine, a close ...
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Fokker E.III The Fokker E.III was the main variant of the ''Eindecker'' (literally meaning "one deck") fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Design an ...
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Fokker E.IV The Fokker E.IV was the final variant of the Fokker Eindecker, ''Eindecker'' fighter aircraft that was operated by Germany during World War I. Design and development Given the Fokker designation of M.15, the E.IV was essentially a lengthened F ...
(1916) * Fokker E.V (later redesignated D.VIII) * Junkers E.I (1916) * Kondor E.III (1918) *
LVG E.I The LVG E.I was a German two-seat monoplane of World War I. The E.I was unusual among monoplanes of its time in that it featured ailerons as opposed to the then-conventional (for monoplanes) wing warping. It was fitted with both a rearward firing ...
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NFW E.I The NFW E.I was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Germany during World War I. Design The E.I was an all-wood single-seat monoplane powered by an Oberursel U.0 Oberursel (Taunus) () is a town in Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Ma ...
* NFW E.II (1917) * Pfalz E.I (1915) *
Pfalz E.II The Morane-Saulnier H was an early aircraft first flown in France in the months immediately preceding the First World War; it was a single-seat derivative of the successful Morane-Saulnier G with a slightly reduced wingspanTaylor 1989, p.648"The ...
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Pfalz E.III The Morane-Saulnier L, or Morane-Saulnier Type L, or officially MoS-3, was a French parasol wing one or two-seat scout aeroplane of the First World War. The Type L became one of the first successful fighter aircraft when it was fitted with a si ...
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Pfalz E.IV The Morane-Saulnier H was an early aircraft first flown in France in the months immediately preceding the First World War; it was a single-seat derivative of the successful Morane-Saulnier G with a slightly reduced wingspanTaylor 1989, p.648"The ...
(1915) * Pfalz E.V (1916) *
Pfalz E.VI The Morane-Saulnier H was an early aircraft first flown in France in the months immediately preceding the First World War; it was a single-seat derivative of the successful Morane-Saulnier G with a slightly reduced wingspanTaylor 1989, p.648"The ...
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G & K types (''Grossflugzeuge'' – large bombers, originally ''Kampfflugzeuge'' – battleplane)

* AEG G.I/K.I (1915)Gray, 1970, p.241 *
AEG G.II The AEG G.II was a German biplane bomber 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 Rus ...
(1915) * AEG G.III (1915) *
AEG G.IV The AEG G.IV was a biplane bomber aircraft used in World War I by Germany. It was developed from the AEG G.III, with refinements to power, bomb-load and dimensions. Coming into service in late 1916, it featured a bomb capacity twice as large as t ...
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AEG G.V The AEG G.V was a biplane bomber aircraft of World War I, a further refinement of the AEG G.IV. The type saw limited production before the Armistice, and never entered operational service. It featured a 600 kg (1,320 lb) bombload. After ...
(1918)Gray, 1970, p.244 * Albatros G.I (1916)Gray, 1970, p.268 * Albatros G.II (1916) * Albatros G.III (1916) * Aviatik G.I * Aviatik G.III *
Fokker K.I The Fokker K.I (for ''Kampfflugzeug''/"combat aircraft"), also known as the M.9, was a German experimental aircraft. First flown in 1915, the M.9 had two M.7 fuselages and tails, without engines, mounted on the lower wing. To this was added a ...
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Friedrichshafen G.I __NOTOC__ The Friedrichshafen G.I (factory designation FF.36 or FF.30) was a prototype heavy bomber aircraft that was built in Germany by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1915. It was Karl Gehlen's first design for the company, and although it was ...
(1915)Gray, 1970, p.381 *
Friedrichshafen G.II The Friedrichshafen G.II (factory designation FF.38) was a heavy bomber aircraft that was designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The plane was used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (German Imperial Air ...
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Friedrichshafen G.III The Friedrichshafen G.III (factory designation FF.45) was a heavy bomber designed and manufactured by ''Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen''. They were used by the German Imperial Air Service during World War I for tactical and limited strategic bombin ...
& IIIa (1917)Gray, 1970, p.382 *
Friedrichshafen G.IV The Friedrichshafen G.IV and G.V (factory designations FF.61 and FF.55) respectively were heavy bombers that were designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The G.IV saw limited use by the ''Luftstreit ...
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Friedrichshafen G.V The Friedrichshafen G.IV and G.V (factory designations FF.61 and FF.55) respectively were heavy bombers that were designed and manufactured in Germany during World War I by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen. The G.IV saw limited use by the ''Luftstreit ...
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Gotha G.I The Gotha G.I was a heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. Design and development In mid-1914, Oskar Ursinus, the founder and editor of the German flying magazine ''Flugsport'', began des ...
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Gotha G.II The Gotha G.II series was a heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. Design and development The Gotha G.II was an entirely new biplane designed by Hans Burkhard, who had previously reworke ...
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Gotha G.III The Gotha G.III was a twin-engine pusher biplane heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. It succeeded the G.II in production and differed primarily in powerplant and in armament details ...
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Gotha G.IV The Gotha G.IV was a heavy bomber used by the (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. It was the first mass-produced large airplane. Development Experience with the earlier G.III showed that the rear gunner could not efficientl ...
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Gotha G.V The Gotha G.V was a heavy bomber used by the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I. Designed for long-range service and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG, the Gotha G.V was used principally as a night bomber. D ...
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Gotha G.VI The Gotha G.VI was an experimental bomber aircraft designed and built in Germany during World War I. Development The Gotha G.VI was an experimental bomber developed from the Gotha G.V. Using the standard wing cellule from the Gotha G.V the G.VI ...
(1918) * Gotha G.VII/GL.VII (1918) * Gotha G.VIII/GL.VIII (1918)Gray, 1970, p.416 *
Gotha G.IX The Gotha G.VIII, GL.VIII, G.IX, and G.X were a family of bomber aircraft produced in Germany during the final months of World War I. Based on the Gotha G.VII, they were intended as high-speed tactical bombers featuring advanced streamlining for ...
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Gotha G.X The Gotha G.X was an experimental bomber aircraft designed and built in Germany from 1917. Development The Gotha G.X was an experimental bomber with a general arrangement similar to the Gotha G.V The Gotha G.V was a heavy bomber used by t ...
(1918)Gray, 1970, p.417 * Halberstadt G.I *
LFG Roland G.I The LFG Roland G.I was a large prototype single-engine biplane bomber built in Germany in 1915, during World War I. It had a single engine buried in the fuselage driving pusher configuration propeller (aircraft), propellers mounted on outriggers ...
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LVG G.I The LVG G.I, (company designation KD.VII), was a prototype German bomber aircraft built by LVG during World War I. Design The LVG G.I was a three-seat biplane equipped with two Benz Bz.III engines driving handed propellers. LVG designed it as a ...
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LVG G.III The LVG G.III was a large, twin engine triplane bomber built in Germany near the end of World War I. Only one was completed. Design and development The LVG G.III is sometimes known as the Schütte-Lanz G.V or Schütte-Lanz Schül G.V as it was a ...
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Rumpler G.I The Rumpler G.I was a bomber aircraft produced in Germany during World War I, together with refined versions known as the G.II and G.III.Taylor 1989, p.772 Design and development Based on a prototype with the factory designation 4A15, the G.I an ...
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Rumpler G.II The Rumpler G.I was a bomber aircraft produced in Germany during World War I, together with refined versions known as the G.II and G.III.Taylor 1989, p.772 Design and development Based on a prototype with the factory designation 4A15, the G.I an ...
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Rumpler G.III The Rumpler G.I was a bomber aircraft produced in Germany during World War I, together with refined versions known as the G.II and G.III.Taylor 1989, p.772 Design and development Based on a prototype with the factory designation 4A15, the G.I an ...
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Schütte-Lanz G.I The Schütte-Lanz G.I was a large, twin engine, pusher configuration, experimental biplane built in Germany early in World War I. Only one was completed. Design and development Schütte-Lanz were best known for their airships, but they also des ...
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Schütte-Lanz G.V The LVG G.III was a large, twin engine triplane bomber built in Germany near the end of World War I. Only one was completed. Design and development The LVG G.III is sometimes known as the Schütte-Lanz G.V or Schütte-Lanz Schül G.V as it was a ...
(aka LVG G.III) * Siemens-Schuckert Forssman (1915)


J types (ground attack)

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AEG PE The AEG PE (''Panzer Einsitzer'' – "armoured one-seater") was a triplane ground-attack 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 histo ...
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AEG DJ.I The AEG DJ.I was a highly streamlined biplane ground attack aircraft of late World War I that was undergoing evaluation at the time of the Armistice. Design and development The single seat attack biplane, which began evaluation in September 191 ...
* AEG J.I (1916)Grey, 1970, pp.9-12 * AEG J.II (1918) * AGO S.I (1918?) *
Albatros J.I The Albatros J.I was a German armored ground attack airplane of World War I, produced in 1918. Design and development The Albatros J.I was a " J-class" derivative of the Albatros C.XII reconnaissance aircraft. The J.I utilized the wings and t ...
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Albatros J.II The Albatros J.II was a German single-engine, single-seat, biplane ground-attack aircraft of World War I. Design and development Albatros J.II was a development of the Albatros J.I with increased fuselage armour and a more powerful engine. The ...
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Junkers CL.I The Junkers CL.I was a ground-attack aircraft developed in Germany during World War I. Its construction was undertaken by Junkers under the designation J 8 as proof of Hugo Junkers' belief in the monoplane, after his firm had been required by the ...
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Junkers J.I The Junkers J.I (manufacturer's name J 4) was a German "J-class" armored sesquiplane of World War I, developed for low-level ground attack, observation and army cooperation. It is especially noteworthy as being the first all-metal aircraft to e ...


L types (bombers)

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Siemens-Schuckert L.I The Siemens-Schuckert L.I was a large, three-engined biplane bomber aircraft, built in Germany towards the end of World War I. It was a twin boom design, strongly influenced by the successful Caproni Ca.3. Three were built but not used operatio ...
(1918)


N types (''nachtflugzeuge'' – night bombers)

* AEG C.IVNGray, 1970, p.235 *
AEG N.I The AEG N.I was a German biplane Night bomber, night-bomber aircraft, bomber which saw limited action during World War I. A total of 37 were built. Several were used postwar as airliners. Specifications References Bibliography

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(1917) * Albatros C.VIII NGray, 1970, p.257 * Albatros N.I (C.VII variant) * BFW N.I *
Friedrichshafen N.I The Friedrichshafen N.I was a German prototype night bomber built by Friedrichshafen during World War I. Design and development The Friedrichshafen N.I was a two-seat biplane equipped with a Mercedes D.IVa The Mercedes D.IVa was a German s ...
* Sablatnig N.I


R types (''Riesenflugzeuge'' – giant bombers)

* AEG R.I (1916) * Aviatik R.III *
DFW R.I __NOTOC__ The DFW R.I, (company designation DFW T26), was a prototype German bomber aircraft of World War I. Development Developed as a private venture by DFW, it was a large biplane of conventional configuration with four engines mounted insid ...
(1916) * DFW R.II (1918) *
Linke-Hofmann R.I The Linke-Hofmann R.I was a heavy bomber aircraft designed and built by the German company Linke-Hofmann during World War I. Only four were built and the type never saw service with the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' (Imperial German Air Service). Develop ...
(1917) *
Linke-Hofmann R.II The Linke-Hofmann R.II (''Riesenflugzeug'' – "giant aircraft") was a bomber aircraft designed and built in Germany from 1917. Design and development The Linke-Hofmann R.I had disappointing performance and handling, as well as structural we ...
(1919) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.I The Siemens-Schuckert R.I was a bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was originally ordered as the Siemens-Schuckert G.I prior to the German Inspectorate of ...
(1915) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.II The Siemens-Schuckert R.II was a prototype bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I that were origina ...
(1915) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.III __NOTOC__ The Siemens-Schuckert R.III was a prototype bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I that w ...
(1915) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.IV The Siemens-Schuckert R.IV was a bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I that were originally intend ...
(1916) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.V __NOTOC__ The Siemens-Schuckert R.V was a bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I that were original ...
(1916) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.VI The Siemens-Schuckert R.VI was a bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I, which were originally inte ...
(1916) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.VII The Siemens-Schuckert R.VII was a bomber aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.808''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2920 It was one of six aircraft based on the Siemens-Schuckert R.I that were originally intend ...
(1917) *
Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII The Siemens-Schuckert R.VIII was a bomber aircraft designed and built in Germany from 1916. Design and development Having built the ''Steffen'' R series, Siemens-Schuckert planned to produce a six-engined ''Riesenflugzeug'' (giant aeroplane) fo ...
(did not fly) * Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.I (1915) * Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.II (1915) * Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O.III (1915) *
Zeppelin-Staaken R.IV 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. ...
(1915) *
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 ...
(1915) *
Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was a four-engined Imperial Germany, German biplane strategic bomber of World War I, and the only ''Riesenflugzeug'' ("giant aircraft") design built in any quantity.Gray, P and Thetford, O ''German Aircraft of the First ...
(1916) * Zeppelin-Staaken R.VII (1917) * Zeppelin-Staaken R.XIV (1918) *
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 ...
(1918) *
Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI The Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI(Av) was a very large bomber (Riesenflugzeug), designed and built in Germany during 1918. Development The R.XVI, an incremental improvement to the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, was one of a series of large bombers called Zeppe ...
(1918) *
Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.I The Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.I (also known as the Dornier Rs.I) was a large three-engined biplane flying boat designed by Claudius Dornier and built during 1914–15 on the German side of Lake Constance. It was destroyed in a storm. Design and develop ...
(did not fly) *
Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.II The Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.II (known incorrectly postwar as the Dornier Rs.II) was a biplane flying boat, designed by Claudius Dornier as a follow-on to his Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.I and built during 1914–1915 on the German side of Lake Constance. Initi ...
(1916) *
Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.III The Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.III (known incorrectly postwar as the Dornier Rs.III) was a large four-engined monoplane flying boat designed by Claudius Dornier and built during 1917 on the German side of Lake Constance at the Zeppelin-Lindau works. D ...
(1917) *
Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV The Zeppelin-Lindau Rs.IV (known incorrectly postwar as the Dornier Rs.IV) was a ''Riesenflugzeug'' (Giant aircraft) monoplane all metal flying boat with a stressed skin hull and fuselage developed for the Imperial German Navy to perform long ra ...
(1918)


W types and other seaplanes (''Wasser'' – floatplane)

* Albatros W.1 (reconnaissance) * Albatros W.2 (reconnaissance) *
Albatros W.3 The Albatros W.3, company designation VT, was a biplane torpedo bomber floatplane prototype, built for the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. Only one was built. Design and development The W.3 was designed from the outset as a to ...
(torpedo bomber) *
Albatros W.4 The Albatros W.4 was a German floatplane derivative of the Albatros D.I fighter with new wing and tail surfaces of greater span than the D.I. One hundred eighteen examples (including three prototypes) were built between June 1916 and December ...
(1916)(fighter) * Albatros W.5 (torpedo bomber) * Albatros W.8 (1918)(fighter) *
Caspar U.1 The Caspar U.1 (sometimes known as the Caspar-Heinkel U.1) was a 1920s German patrol seaplane designed by Ernst Heinkel and built by Caspar-Werke. The U.1 was designed to fit into a cylindrical container to allow it to be carried, then launched fr ...
(U-boat aircraft) *
Friedrichshafen FF.33 Friedrichshafen FF.33 was a German single-engined reconnaissance three-bay wing structure biplane, using twin floats, designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1914 for the ''Marine-Fliegerabteilung'' aviation forces of the ''Kaiserliche Mari ...
(reconnaissance) * Friedrichshafen FF.49 (reconnaissance) *
Gotha WD.1 The Avro Type H, Type 501, and Type 503 were a family of early British military seaplanes. They were a development of the Avro 500 design and were originally conceived of as amphibious, the prototype being fitted with a single large main float ( ...
(reconnaissance) * Gotha WD.2/5/9/12/13/15 (reconnaissance) * Gotha WD.3 (reconnaissance) *
Gotha WD.7 The Gotha WD.7 (for ''Wasser Doppeldecker'' - "Water Biplane") was a reconnaissance floatplane developed in the German Empire during World War I. Development After the pusher Gotha WD.3, WD.3 was not accepted by the Imperial German Navy, Gotha ...
(reconnaissance) * Gotha WD.8 (reconnaissance) * Gotha WD.11 (torpedo bomber) * Gotha WD.14/20/22 (torpedo bombers) *
Gotha WD.27 The Gotha WD.27 (for ''Wasser Doppeldecker'' - "Water Biplane") was a patrol seaplane developed in Germany during World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global confl ...
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Hansa-Brandenburg FB The Lohner L was a reconnaissance flying boat produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a two-bay biplane of typical configuration for the flying boats of the day, with its pusher engine mounted on struts in the interplane gap. T ...
* Hansa-Brandenburg GDW (torpedo bomber) * Hansa-Brandenburg GNW (reconnaissance) * Hansa-Brandenburg GW (torpedo bomber) * Hansa-Brandenburg KW (reconnaissance) * Hansa-Brandenburg KDW (fighter) * Hansa-Brandenburg LW (reconnaissance) * Hansa-Brandenburg NW (reconnaissance) * Hansa-Brandenburg W (reconnaissance) * Hansa-Brandenburg W.11 (fighter) *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 was a German biplane fighter floatplane of World War I. It was a development of Ernst Heinkel's previous KDW, adding a rear cockpit for an observer/gunner, and had an unusual inverted tailfin/rudder (which instead o ...
(1917)(fighter) *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.19 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.19 was a German fighter-reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was a single-engined two-seat biplane floatplane, and was a larger development of the successful W.12. It served with the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imper ...
(reconnaissance) *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 was a German submarine-launched reconnaissance flying boat of the World War I era, designed and built by Hansa-Brandenburg. Design and development Due to the need to be stored and launched from a submarine aircraft ca ...
(fighter) *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.27 The Hansa Brandenburg W.27 and W.32 were prototype fighter floatplanes developed in parallel in Germany during World War I. They were developments of and intended replacements for the W.12 then in service and differed from each other principal ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, p.298 *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 The Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 was a German two-seat fighter floatplane which served in the closing months of World War I with the Imperial German Navy's () Naval Air Service () from bases on the North Sea coast. Background and description Hansa ...
(1918)(fighter) * Hansa-Brandenburg W.32 (fighter) *
Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 was a German two-seat, single-engined low-wing monoplane floatplane, which had been developed by Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke during World War I as a higher powered enlargement of the similar Hansa-Brandenburg W. ...
(fighter) * Junkers CLS.I (fighter) *
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 404 __NOTOC__ Numbers 404 and 405 were the sole two examples of a unique seaplane design produced for the flying service of the Imperial German Navy during the First World War.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p. ...
(trainer)Gray, 1970, p.443 *
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 467 __NOTOC__ Numbers 467 to 470 were four examples of a unique seaplane design produced for the flying service of the Imperial German Navy during the First World War.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.154Taylor ...
(trainer) *
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 1105 __NOTOC__ Imperial German Navy seaplanes numbers 1105 and 1106 were the only examples of a unique design produced for the navy's flying service during the First World War.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.1 ...
(trainer) *
Kaiserliche Werft Danzig 1650 __NOTOC__ Number 1650 was the sole example of a unique seaplane design produced for the flying service of the Imperial German Navy during the First World War.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.165 From 1916 o ...
(reconnaissance) * Kaiserliche Werft Kiel 463 (trainer) * Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 401 (trainer) * Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 461 (trainer)Gray, 1970, pp.443-444 * Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 945 (fighter) * Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven 947 (reconnaissance) *
LFG Roland WD The LFG Roland D.I was a fighter aircraft produced in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, 576 It was a single-seat aircraft based originally on the Roland C.II two-seat reconnaissance type. It shared its predecessor's unusual design feature ...
(1917)(fighter) * LFG Roland W (reconnaissance)Gray, 1970, p.464 * Lübeck-Travemünde F.1 (reconnaissance) *
Lübeck-Travemünde F.2 The Lübeck-Travemünde F.2 was a 1910s German reconnaissance floatplane. The F.2 was an improved version of the company's earlier Lübeck-Travemünde F.1, F.1 floatplane and was the first armed aircraft built by Flugzeugwerft Lübeck-Travemünd ...
(reconnaissance)Gray, 1970, p.470 * Lübeck-Travemünde F.3/844 (fighter) * Lübeck-Travemünde F.4 (reconnaissance) * Oertz W 4Gray, 1970, p.491 * Oertz W 5Gray, 1970, pp.491-492 * Oertz W 6 * Oertz W 7 * Oertz W 8 *
Rumpler 4E Rumpler-Luftfahrzeugbau GmbH, Rumpler-Werke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft and automobile manufacturer founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau.Gunston 1993, p.259 The fir ...
(1914) *
Rumpler 6B The Rumpler 6B was a German single-engine floatplane fighter with a biplane wing structure, designed and built by Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, in Berlin Johannisthal and introduced in 1916. Design and development Born out of a requirement of the ''Ka ...
(1916)(fighter/reconnaissance) *
Sablatnig SF-1 __NOTOC__ The Sablatnig SF-1 was a reconnaissance seaplane built in Germany during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.787 Development It was a conventional two-bay biplane with staggered wings of unequal span and a fuselage of particularly sleek ...
(reconnaissance) *
Sablatnig SF-2 __NOTOC__ The Sablatnig SF-2 was a reconnaissance seaplane produced in Germany during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.787 Development A refined version of the Sablatnig SF-1, the SF-2 featured a new empennage and was fitted with a radio trans ...
(reconnaissance) * Sablatnig SF-3 (fighter) * Sablatnig SF-4 (fighter) *
Sablatnig SF-5 The Sablatnig SF-5 was a reconnaissance seaplane produced in Germany during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.787 Design and development Designed to meet a specification by the Imperial German Navy for a higher-powered replacement for the Sabl ...
(reconnaissance) * Sablatnig SF-7 (fighter) *
Sablatnig SF-8 The Sablatnig SF-8 was a training seaplane produced in Germany during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.787 While Sablatnig's previous designs for the Imperial German Navy had often seen service as trainers, the SF-8 was purpose-built for this r ...
(trainer)


Experimental

* Albatros C.II * Albatros L 3 (single seat reconnaissance) * Albatros L 9 (single seat reconnaissance) *
Alter Type AI The Alter A.1 was a single-seat biplane fighter aircraft first flown in February 1917. Built by Ludwig Alter-Werke of Darmstadt to a design by Kallweit and Ketterer, the A.1 was very similar in concept to the Nieuport 11, but not an exact copy. ...
– fighter * Daimler L8 (fighter) * Daimler L9 (fighter)Gray, 1970, p.316 *
Daimler L11 The Daimler L11 was a German single-seat, parasol-wing, monoplane fighter built during the First World War for the Imperial German Air Service (). A single prototype was built in 1918, but the war ended before it could be accepted for service. ...
(fighter) *
Daimler L14 The Daimler L14 was a two-seat, high-wing, monoplane fighter built in 1919. It was built as a two-person, aerodynamically improved version of the Daimler L11 aircraft. It was powered by the Daimler D.IIIb water-cooled V-8 engine and was armed ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, p.317 * DFW T.28 Floh (fighter) * Euler D (fighter) * Euler Dr.2 (fighter)Gray, 1970, p.331 *
Euler Dr.3 Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
(fighter) *
Euler Dr.4 Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
(fighter) * Euler Pusher Einsitzer (fighter) * Euler Quadruplane (fighter) *
Fokker M.6 The Fokker M.6 was a two-seat experimental design resembling the later E.I fighter. It had a 60 kW (80 hp) Oberursel engine and first flew in June 1914. M.6 1910s German experimental aircraft Shoulder-wing aircraft Single-engined t ...
(1914)Gray, 1970, p.336 *
Fokker V.1 The Fokker V.1 was a small German sesquiplane experimental fighter prototype built in 1916 by the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. Sporting a parasol wing, it was the first Fokker aircraft purportedly designed by Reinhold Platz—the respective roles played ...
(1916) (fighter) *
Fokker V.2 The Fokker V.2 and V.3 aircraft were developed from the Fokker V.1, but utilized an 89 kW (120 hp) Mercedes liquid-cooled inline engine instead of the rotary. This is similar to the Fokker V.6 being tested as the Fokker V.5 was being ...
(fighter) *
Fokker V.8 Fokker V.8 was a five-winged aircraft built by Fokker for the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' during World War I. After the initial success of the Fokker Dr.I triplane, Anthony Fokker proposed a quintuplane, reasoning that if three wings were good, five ...
(5 wing fighter) *
Fokker V.9 The Fokker V.9 was part of a series of experimental aircraft which led up to the low-production D.VI fighter. The aircraft were very similar, varying in detail and power plants. The V.9 was powered by a 60 kW (80 hp) Oberursel and first ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, pp.352 *
Fokker V.17 The Fokker V.17 and its derivatives were a series of experimental monoplane Fighter aircraft produced by the Dutch aircraft company Fokker in the 1910s. V.17, was a shoulder cantilever-winged monoplane with plywood covering. 82 kW (110&nb ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, pp.355 * Fokker V.20 (fighter)Gray, 1970, pp.356 *
Fokker V.23 The Fokker V.17 and its derivatives were a series of experimental monoplane Fighter aircraft produced by the Dutch aircraft company Fokker in the 1910s. V.17, was a shoulder cantilever-winged monoplane with plywood covering. 82 kW (110  ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, pp.357 * Fokker V.25 (fighter)Gray, 1970, pp.358 * Fokker V.27 (fighter) * Germania JM (1916) (unarmed single seater) *
Hansa-Brandenburg L.14 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 Cami ...
(fighter)Gray, 1970, p.313 *
Hansa-Brandenburg L.16 The Hansa-Brandenburg L.16, was an Experimental aircraft, experimental triplane Fighter aircraft, fighter that was designed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the First World War. Specifications (Hansa-Brandenburg L.16) References Further ...
(fighter) * Junkers J 1 (1915) (first all-metal aircraft)Gray, 1970, p.430 * Junkers J 2/E.I (1916) * LFG V 19 Straslund (submarine aircraft) * Rex 1915 Scout (1915)Gray, 1970, p.510 * Rex 1916 Scout (1916) * Rex 1917 Scout (1917) * Rumpler 7D (fighter) *
Siemens-Schuckert D.II The Siemens-Schuckert D.IV was a late-World War I fighter aircraft from Siemens-Schuckert (SSW). It reached service too late and was produced in too few numbers to have any effect on the war effort. Earlier designs Siemens-Schuckert's first prod ...
(1917)(experimental)Siemens-Schuckert Werke S.S.W. D II
accessdate:Sept 2014 *
Siemens-Schuckert L.I The Siemens-Schuckert L.I was a large, three-engined biplane bomber aircraft, built in Germany towards the end of World War I. It was a twin boom design, strongly influenced by the successful Caproni Ca.3. Three were built but not used operatio ...
(1918) *
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) V1 Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturing company. It is perhaps best known for its leading role in the design and manufacture of rigid airships, commonly referred to as ''Zeppelins'' due to the company's prominence. The name ...
(1916)


Ottoman aircraft

Lacking an indigenous aviation industry, the Ottoman Empire primarily relied on Germany for aircraft, although a number of French pre-war aircraft were used in the early part of the war. The Ottoman Empire also operated two Avro 504
light fighter A light fighter or lightweight fighter is a fighter aircraft towards the low end of the practical range of weight, cost, and complexity over which fighters are fielded. The light or lightweight fighter retains carefully selected competitive feat ...
reconnaissance In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, terrain, and other activities. Examples of reconnaissance include patrolling by troops (skirmisher ...
aircraft. Later on, they were used as trainer aircraft


See also

*
Idflieg aircraft designation system The '' Idflieg'' (''Inspekteur der Flieger'') designation system was used to classify German heavier-than-air military (as opposed to naval) aircraft from the early days of the ''Fliegertruppe/Luftstreitkräfte'' to the end of World War I. The sys ...
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List of military aircraft of Germany This list of military aircraft of Germany includes prototype, pre-production, and operational types. No distinction is drawn here between different services until 1991. In 1990, the various air arms of the former German Democratic Republic were ...
* List of World War I Entente aircraft


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