Friedrichshafen FF.49 was a German, two-seat, single-engine float-plane designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.
Variants FF.39Two-seat reconnaissance float-plane, powered by a Benz Bz.IV water-cooled 6-cylinder piston engine. 14 built. FF.49bTwo-seat bomber float-plane. 25 built. FF.49cTwo-seat reconnaissance float-plane. LFG V 1 Redesigned civil derivative of FF.49c by Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft (LFG) with wider fuselage, modified wing profile and seats for three passengers in raised cabin. Two converted 1919.Stroud Aeroplane Monthly April 1990, pp. 241–242 LFG V 2 Redesigned civil derivative of FF.49c by LFG with wider fuselage, modified wing profile and seats for five passengers in two cabins. Two converted 1919. Orlogsværftet HB.IISeven FF.49s re-conditioned at the Orlogsværftet / Flyvetroppernes Værksteder in Denmark.
Operators Royal Danish Navy Danish Air Lines started operations with a FF.49 equipped to carry two passengers on the Copenhagen–Warnemünde on 7 August 1920.Stroud 1966, p. 279 Finnish Air Force (four FF.49C, one FF.49B; in use 1918–1923) Kaiserliche Marine
Deutsche Luft-ReedereiStroud 1966, p. 280 Luftdeinst Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft operated LFG V1 and V2s on passenger services between Stralsund and Rügen and joyriding at Baltic beach resorts 1919–1920. Lloyd Luftverkehr SablatnigStroud 1966, pp. 279–280 Royal Netherlands Navy (four FF.49C, by A/S Aero) Polish Air Force (postwar) Swedish Navy (postwar), (two FF.49C, in use 1919–1924)
Specifications (FF.49c)
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