For delivery in autumn 2023
One of the most widespread and popular aircraft of the
Austro-Hungarian Air Force was the two-seat multi-purpose
biplane Hansa-Brandenburg C.I. It successfully performed
reconnaissance, bombing and fighter tasks. At the end of its career
it was used as school plane. Its designer was the German aeronautical
engineer Ernst Heinkel.The original German manufacturer supplied
80 units of the C.I. version. and from the end of 1915 license
production began in Austria-Hungary at the company Albatros,
renamed in February 1917 to the company Phönix Flugzeugwerke
A.G. Albatros developed a universal fuselage, first installed on the
Brandenburg C.I produced at the Hungarian Flugzeugfabrik AG
(UFAG) in Budapest from April 1916. The standard engine was a
Daimler with a power of 110 kW. In the middle of 1917, when their
performances were no longer sufficient for combat service, they
mostly switched to training tasks. On the less exposed sections of
the front, however, they continued to act as fighting forces. The
Brandenburg C.I. was producen in many series, which differed in their
appearance and parameters. Series 26, 29.5, 129, 229, 329 and 429
came from Vienna‘s Phönix, while Budapest manufacturer UFAG
produced series 61, 64, 67, 68, 69, 69.5, 169, 269 and 369. Their
wingspan was around 12.3 m , length 8.3 to 8.4 m and the weight of
the empty machine roughly 800 to 900 kg. Top speed was originally
140 km/h, but increased during the war; machines of individual series
were equipped with Mercedes, Daimler, Hiero or Benz engines.
Armament consisted of one fixed and one movable 8 mm Schwarzlose
machine gun. In addition, the Hansa-Brandenburg C.I aircraft could
carry aerial bombs with a total weight of 60–100 kg under their wings,
as well as radio and photo equipment. Hansa Brandenburg C.I. is
closely connected with the history of Czechoslovak aviation. During
and after the war, many pilots and observers of Czech, German,
Hungarian and Slovak nationality, originating from our territory and
serving in the Austro-Hungarian Air Force, mainly on the Eastern and
Italian fronts, flew on it. After the end of the First World War, these
machines were used by the air forces of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,
Poland, Ukraine, the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Russia and Romania,
where they were also produced. In Czechoslovakia, they became the
model for the Aero A - 14, A - 15 and A - 26 types, which served well
into the post-war years not only in the military air force, but also in civil
air transport.
