Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during
World War I
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. The company was established at
Mülhausen
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(today in France) in 1909
and soon became one of the country's leading producers of aircraft. It relocated to
Freiburg
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in 1914 and to
Leipzig
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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
French
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aircraft;
Hanriot
Aéroplanes Hanriot et Cie. or simply 'Hanriot' was a French aircraft manufacturer with roots going back to the beginning of aviation. Founded by René Hanriot in 1910 as ''The Monoplans Hanriot Company Ltd.'', the company survived in differ ...
monoplanes and
Farman
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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 ]Freiburg
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due to French threat, and then to new facilities in Leipzig
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-Heiterblick in 1916.[ The company did not continue after the 1919 ]Treaty of Versailles
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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, desig ...
* Aviatik B.II
* Aviatik B.III
* Aviatik C.I
* Aviatik C.II
* Aviatik C.III
* Aviatik C.V
* Aviatik (Ö) C.I
* Aviatik (Berg) D.I
* Aviatik (Berg) D.II
* Aviatik D.III
* Aviatik D.IV
* Aviatik D.V
* Aviatik D.VI
* Aviatik D.VII
See also
*List of aircraft manufacturers
This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in pa ...
References
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1909
1909 establishments in Germany
1919 disestablishments in Germany
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1919