Aviatik

Aviatik
IndustryAircraft manufacture
Founded1909
Defunct1919
FateClosed under Treaty of Versailles
Headquarters
Freiburg then Leipzig

Automobil und Aviatik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer during World War I. The company was established at Mülhausen (today in France) in 1909[1] and soon became one of the country's leading producers of aircraft. It relocated to Freiburg in 1914 and to Leipzig 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.[2]

  1. ^ Grosz, Peter (2003). Windsock Datafile 102: Aviatik B types. Berkhamsted: Albatros Productions. p. 101. ISBN 0-948414-95-2.
  2. ^ Grosz, Peter M.; Haddow, George; Scheiner, Peter (2002) [1993]. Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One. Boulder: Flying Machine Press. pp. 129–189. ISBN 1 891268 05 8.