what is it?
The Aviatik B.I is a German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed and built by the Automobil und Aviatik AG company, who until then had produced copies of French designs.
How to recognise it: piston engines · biplane · 14 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 112 years ago, in 1914.
- Wingspan of 14 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1914
- introduced
- 1914
- retired
- 1916
- status
- retired
- number built
- —
- role
- reconnaissance aircraft
- makers
- Aviatik
- engines
- Mercedes D.I
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 14 m
- height
- 3.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,090 kg
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- cruise speed
- 90 km/h
- range
- 800 km
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q645886, Wikipedia: Aviatik B.I (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.