Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
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The Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 was a German two-seat fighter floatplane which served in the closing months of World War I with the Imperial German Navy's (Kaiserliche Marine) Naval Air Service (Marine-Fliegerabteilung) from bases on the North Sea coast. In concept the aircraft was a monoplane version of the biplane Hansa-Brandenburg W.12, although there were many structural differences between the two.
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A Japanese copy of the W.29 | |
Role | Floatplane fighter |
Manufacturer | Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeug-Werke |
Designer | Ernst Heinkel |
First flight | 27 March 1918 |
Introduction | Mid-1918 |
Retired | 1936 |
Primary users | Kaiserliche Marine |
Produced | 1918–1919 |
Number built | About 402 |
Developed from | Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 |
Some examples were turned over to the victorious Allies for evaluation, although only the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered copies into production which remained in service until the early 1930s. The Royal Danish Navy purchased at least three aircraft by 1919 and built more under license which were phased out of service in 1930. The Royal Norwegian Army bought two smuggled aircraft from Hansa und Brandenburgische Flugzeug-Werke after the war which remained in service until around 1928.
Some of those aircraft that were sold on the civilian market after being discarded by the military were used as mail planes and fishery spotting duties. Other were modified with a passenger cabin replacing the aft cockpit.