Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.

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.

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.

Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. (English Wikipedia) Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (French Wikipedia) Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (German Wikipedia)

1920Dir28, 32, lists firm at Berlin-Johannisthal

Occasional patents were filed from Charlottenburg.

• LVG
• LVG C.II
• LVG B.I
• Gotha G.IX
• LVG C.VI
• 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.)

• Albatros D.II
• LVG E.I

Sources

• Gunston, 1993, p191, 144, 271
• Gunston, 2005, p294-295, 212, 413
• SD187
• 1919AYB358, 360
• 1920Dir28, 32

References

Patents associated with organization named Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.

• Patent NO-1912-22466 (Inventors: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H., English title: Device for dismantling gondola in aeronautics (or modern usage "aerospace"), Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1917-326429 (Filing date: 1917-02-07, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent US-1910-1013342 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, English title: Means for signalling from airships and the like, Filing date: 1910-05-11, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1909-06-09 Romeo Wankmüller, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent US-1911-1000865 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, English title: Airship, Filing date: 1911-02-09, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-2636, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent US-1911-1005097 (Inventors: Romeo Wankmüller, English title: Airship, Filing date: 1911-06-26, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1911-2636, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent LU-1911-9200 (English title: Suspension for aircraft gondolas, Filing date: 1911-09-01, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent FR-1911-433884 (English title: Nacelle suspension process on aircraft, Filing date: 1911-09-04, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1910-11-08 Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DK-1911-16094 (English title: Suspension of Gondolas for Aircraft, Filing date: 1911-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AT-1911-53717 (English title: Suspension of nacelles for aircraft, Filing date: 1911-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1911-59552 (English title: For hanging aircraft baskets, Filing date: 1911-09-12, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent FR-1914-470261 (English title: Stabilization valves for aeroplanes, Filing date: 1914-03-30, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1913-04-01 Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1914-303772 (English title: Airplane, the airfoils of which have wing-like profiles, Filing date: 1914-10-13, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1914-310397 (English title: Airplane, Filing date: 1914-10-27, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1914-68283 (English title: Flying machine with stackable barrels ?, Filing date: 1914-12-30, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1915-326209 (English title: Bracing for wings of biplanes and multiplanes, Filing date: 1915-05-01, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AT-1915-73587 (English title: Bracing for wings of biplanes and multiplanes, Filing date: 1915-05-17, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1915-308099 (English title: Regulating apparatus for gas supply for two or more motors, particularly for airplanes, Filing date: 1915-05-29, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AT-1915-73588 (English title: Aircraft fuselage with observation openings, Filing date: 1915-06-14, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AT-1915-73590 (English title: Fighter plane, Filing date: 1915-09-11, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent AT-1915-73591 (English title: Longitudinal stabilization for aircraft, Filing date: 1915-09-18, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1915-76876 (Inventors: Franz Schneider, English title: Monoplane, Filing date: 1915-11-20, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1915-70781 (English title: Possibly machine guns situated in front of propellers, Filing date: 1915-12-09, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1915-70782 (English title: Equipment for the discharge of firearms from aircraft, mainly airplanes, Filing date: 1915-12-09, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1916-76416 (Inventors: Franz Schneider, English title: Equipment for launching and simultaneous correction of the time of fire required by vertical or level swinging of the machine gun in the case of machine guns used on flying machines, Filing date: 1916-01-05, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1916-306643 (English title: Device for maintaining an undisturbed fuel line for aircraft combustion engine, Filing date: 1916-01-08, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1916-76997 (English title: Machinery and similar firearms for machinery and similar firearms on aeroplanes and similar vehicles, powered by the motor, Filing date: 1916-10-14, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1916-75792 (English title: Bracing of flying machine bodies and the like, Filing date: 1916-12-23, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent HU-1917-75794 (English title: Rudder actuators for foot lifts on airplanes, Filing date: 1916-12-23, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1917-318933 (Filing date: 1917-05-04, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)
• Patent DE-1917-310396 (English title: Apparatus for firing an airplane-mounted machine gun, Filing date: 1917-07-06, Applicant firm: Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.)

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
Affiliations
Keywords	airplane, biplane, airship, LTA, fuselage, military, nacelle
Started aero	1912
Ended aero
Key people	Ernst Heinkel, Franz Schneider
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