!!!Flugzeugproduktion

Aircraft Production: After the first motorised aircraft was 
constructed in 1907 by I.  Etrich, the first centre for manufacturing 
aircraft was established in 1909/1910 in Wiener Neustadt 
("Etrich-Taube", "Pischof-Autoplan") and F.  Porsche built airplane 
engines in Austria for the Daimler Works. In Vienna "Jacob Lohner & 
Co." and "Werner & Pfleiderer" began manufacturing airplane engines in 
1910. In 1912 the airfield in Vienna-Aspern was built and in 1913 the 
airplane manufacturing works in Fischamend. Approximately 150 
airplanes had been built in Austria by 1914. During World War I 
aircraft manufacturing in Austria experienced a boom: 11 plants 
supplied the Austrian military with 3,400 airplanes. Up to World War 
II only gliders and sporting planes were built in Austria, and since 
1945 airplane manufacturing has been limited to these categories. 
During World War II the Me 109 and the He 162 military planes were 
manufactured in large numbers in Wiener Neustadt in the Seegrotte near 
Hinterbruehl.

!Literature
R. Keimel, Oesterreichische Luftfahrzeuge, 1981.


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