LVG C.VI
| LVG C.VI | |
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| Role | Reconnaissance aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft G.m.b.H.
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| First flight | 1917 |
| Introduction | 1918 |
| Primary user | Luftstreitkräfte |
| Produced | 1918 |
| Number built | 1,100[1] |
| Developed from | LVG C.V |
The LVG C.VI was a German two-seat
Development
The aircraft was designed by Willy Sabersky-Müssigbrodt and developed by
Post-war several C.VIs with passenger cabins aft of the open cockpit were converted by Raab-Katzenstein as the LVG P.I, LVG P.II and alternatively Raab-Katzenstein RK-8 Marabu.
Operational service
Most LVG C.VIs were used by the German military aviation in last operations of World War I, mostly on Western Front, for close reconnaissance and observation.
After the war, Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR) used several C.VIs to provide mail and passenger transport service. The
Suomen ilmailuliikenne Oy purchased two C.VIs in 1923, from a Swedish airline that had gone bankrupt in 1922, becoming the predecessor to
The Finnish Air Force purchased two aircraft; one destroyed in a spin in Santahamina in 1923, the other used until the end of 1924.
More than 20 were used by Lithuania, two of which survived until 1940.
Three were used in
Survivors
Today, there are three surviving C.VIs. One is currently being restored at the
Operators
- Belgian Air Force
- SNETA
- Romanian Air Corps - 11 aircraft used from 1919[2]
- Soviet Air Force
Specifications (C.VI)
Data from Thulinista Hornettiin[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 7.45 m (24 ft 5 in)
- Wingspan: 13 m (42 ft 8 in)
- Height: 2.85 m (9 ft 4 in)
- Wing area: 37 m2 (400 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 945 kg (2,083 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 1,390 kg (3,064 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Benz Bz.IV 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 147 kW (197 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 170 km/h (110 mph, 92 kn)
- Range: 400 km (250 mi, 220 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 6,500 m (21,300 ft)
- Rate of climb: 4.17 m/s (821 ft/min)
Armament
- 1 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) LMG 08/15fixed with an interruptor gear
- 1 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) Parabellum MG14machine gun on a ring mounting
- 90 kg (200 lb) of bombs
See also
Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Related lists
References
- ^ ISBN 0-00-719292-4.
- ^ Cornel Năstase (2005). "LVG C.VI". Modelism 2005-02 (in Romanian). p. 6.
- ISBN 951-95688-2-4.
Bibliography
- Herris, Jack (2019). LVG Aircraft of WWI: Volume 3: C.VI–C.XI & Fighters: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 36. Charleston, South Carolina: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-935881-74-2.
- Kabatek, Mateusz & Kulczynski, Fr. Robert SDB (2022). German Aircraft in Polish Service: Volume 1: Halberstadt Cl.II, Cl.IV, C.V; LVG C.VI; & Hannover Cl.V. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 70. n.p.: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-953201-58-4.
- Klaauw, Bart van der (March–April 1999). "Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or Deliberately, More than 100 Aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch Territory During the Great War". Air Enthusiast (80): 54–59. ISSN 0143-5450.
Further reading
- Chołoniewski, Krzysztof; Bączkowski, Wiesław (1987). Samoloty wojskowe obcych konstrukcji : 1918-1939. T. 2 (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności. ISBN 83-206-0728-0.
External links
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