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Most articles about aircraft types that were used in World War I are in one of the 1910–1919 (first flight) categories listed below. Some aircraft (e.g. airship) types with earlier first flights were also used in WWI.
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 reconnaissance aircraft. Later on, they were used as trainer aircraft
JN-1W — Two aircraft that appear in US Navy records, which may have been confused with the Models S-4 and S-5. JN-2 — first production version, 8 built JN-3 — variant with new unequal-span wings and improved flight controls, 97 built for the RNAS (some sources indicate 91, but serial numbers total 97; 12 built in Canada) plus 2 for the US ...
Cheesman, E.F. (ed.) Fighter Aircraft of the 1914–1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1960; The Great War, television documentary by the BBC. Gray, Peter & Thetford, Owen German Aircraft of the First World War. London, Putnam, 1962. Guttman, Jon. Pusher Aces of World War 1: Volume 88 of Osprey Aircraft of the Aces: Volume 88 of Aircraft of ...
The Avro 504 is a single-engine biplane bomber made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during World War I totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, [2] making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind that served in any military capacity during the First World War.
This is a list of World War I Entente aircraft organized by country of origin. Dates are of first flight. Dates are of first flight. Nieuport 10, used by most Entente countries as fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and trainer.
The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. [2] Developed in April 1915, the first Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with a synchronization gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the ...
This aircraft was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid during World War II. In 1932, Fokker assembled a Dr.I from existing components. It was displayed in the Deutsche Luftfahrt-Sammlung in Berlin. In 1943, the aircraft was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid. Today, only a few original Dr.I artifacts survive in museums.