what is it?
The Hansa-Brandenburg G.I was a bomber aircraft used to equip the Austro-Hungarian aviation corps in World War I. It was a mostly conventional large, three-bay biplane with staggered wings of slightly unequal span. The pilot and bombardier sat in a large open cockpit at the nose of the aircraft, with a second open cockpit for a gunner in a dorsal position behind the wings. An unusual feature was the placement of the twin tractor engines.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 18 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 110 years ago, in 1916.
- Wingspan of 18 m: about 4 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
- 1916
- introduced
- 1917
- number built
- 50
- role
- bomber
- makers
- Hansa-Brandenburg
- engines
- 2× Austro-Daimler 6 cyl. water-cooled inline piston engine / Austro-Daimler 6
- length
- 9.8 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,740 kg
- top speed
- 133 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q829890, Wikipedia: Hansa-Brandenburg G.I (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.