Halberstadt
Halberstädter Flugzeug-Werke GmbH built both fighters and two-seat aircraft, most of which were well-liked. The firm began as Deutsche Bristol Werke Flugzeug in 1912, but it changed its name at the beginning of the war.[1] It began by building trainers, a Taube, and B-class two-seaters, but branched into fighters with the D.I prototype and D.II.
Production aircraft from the Great War or shortly thereafter include:
- Halberstadt A.I
- Halberstadt B.I
- Halberstadt B.II
- Halberstadt B.III
- Halberstadt C.I
- Halberstadt CL.II
- Halberstadt C.III
- Halberstadt CL.IV
- Halberstadt CLS.I [note 1]
- Halberstadt C.V
- Halberstadt C.VII [note 2]
- Halberstadt C.VIII [note 3]
- Halberstadt C.IX [note 4]
- Halberstadt D.I [note 5]
- Halberstadt D.II
- Halberstadt D.III
- Halberstadt D.IV [note 6]
- Halberstadt D.V
- Halberstadt G.I [note 7]
References
- Notes
- ↑ The CLS.I was a smaller version of the CL.IV. It was tested too late to go into production.[2]
- ↑ The C.VII was a prototype based on the C.V with a 245hp Maybach Mb.IV engine.[3]
- ↑ The C.VIII was a prototype combining C.VII and CL.IV features and probably would have been the next into production had the war continued.[4]
- ↑ The C.IX was a prototype C.V variant using an Austro-Hungarian Heiro engine, probably intended for use by the Empire.[4]
- ↑ The D.I was a Feb'16 prototype with the 100hp Mercedes D.I or 120hp Argus As.II, which became the D.II prototype when re-engined with the 120hp Mercedes D.II.[5]
- ↑ The D.IV of 1917 did not go into production.[6] Three prototypes were built, and lessons learned were carried forward into the CL.II.[7]
- ↑ A single G.I twin-engine bomber was built in the winter of 1915/16 but the type did not go into production.[8][9]
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Peter Gray and Owen Thetford. German Aircraft of the First World War. Great Britain, Putnam, 1962, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-809-7.
- P.M. Grosz, Halberstadt Fighters. Great Britain, Albatros Publications Ltd., 1996. ISBN 0-948414-86-3
- Jack Herris, German G-Type Bombers of WWI. Aeronaut Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-935881-26-1.
- W.M. Lamberton and E.F. Cheesman, Reconnaissance & Bomber Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Great Britain: Harleyford Publications Ltd., 1962. ISBN 9780900435027