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[[File:LVG-Werbung.jpg|200px|right|Pre-1918 poster inclusive of a Schneider-type bi-plane]]

'''Luft Verkehrs Gesellschaft''' was a German corporation. It began operating and constructing dirgibles December 1911 and in early 1912 it began building Farman airplanes under license; it also produced licensed Albatros fighters.

[[Ernst Heinkel]] was a designer from the firm's establishment in December 1911 to sometime in 1913, when he went to [[Albatros Werke AG]]. [[Franz Schneider]] was a designer with the firm between 1912-1916; other designers were [[Ehrhardt]] and [[Rethel]].

Hungarian patent data has Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H. as the "[[legal successor]]"(Jogutódja) to [[Franz Schneider]].<ref>[[Patent HU-1916-76416]]</ref>

By December 1912 the firm had completed first original design, a 2-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Heinkel, that led to well over 1,000 being built in two series.  Schneider designed two series of fighters; other designs were by Ehrhardt and Rethel.  Postwar, '''Luft Verkehrs''' converted military products into civil aircraft.

[[w:en:LVG|Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (English Wikipedia)]]
[[w:fr:Luftverkehrsgesellschaft|Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (French Wikipedia)]]
[[w:de:Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)|Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (German Wikipedia)]]

1920Dir28, 32, lists firm at Berlin-Johannisthal

Occasional patents were filed from Charlottenburg.<ref>[[Patent DK-1911-16094]]</ref>

* [[w:en:LVG|LVG]]
* [[w:en:LVG C.II|LVG C.II]]
* [[w:en:LVG B.I|LVG B.I]]
* [[w:en:Gotha G.IX|Gotha G.IX]]
* [[w:en:LVG C.VI|LVG C.VI]]
* [[w:en:Gotha G.IV|Gotha G.IV]]

(In the developing context of mass, and standardized, manufacturing, these planes, for instance were "ordered" simultaneously from both '''Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.''' and [[Siemens-Schuckert Werke GmbH]], in 1917.)

* [[w:en:Albatros D.II|Albatros D.II]]
* [[w:en:LVG E.I|LVG E.I]]
=== Sources ===
* [[Gunston, 1993]], p191, 144, 271
* [[Gunston, 2005]], p294-295, 212, 413
* SD187
* 1919AYB358, 360
* 1920Dir28, 32

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{{Company
|Names=Luft Verkehrs Gesellschaft (LVG); Luft Verkehrs; Luft Verkehrs GmbH; Luft-Verkehrs Gesellschaft G.-G.; Luft-verkehrs G. m. b. H.; Luftverkehrs-Gesellschaft m. b. H.
|Country=Germany
|City=Berlin-Johannisthal
|Keywords=airplane; biplane; airship; LTA; fuselage; military; nacelle
|Started aero=1912
|Key people=Ernst Heinkel; Franz Schneider
}}