AEG B.I

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{{No footnotes|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox aircraft |name =B.I |image =AEG B.I 1914.jpg |caption = |type =Reconnaissance aircraft |manufacturer =AEG |designer = |first_flight =1914 |introduction =1914 |retired = |status = |primary_user = |more_users = |produced = |number_built = |unit cost = |variants = }}

The '''AEG B.I''' was a German two-seat biplane unarmed reconnaissance aircraft produced in very small numbers in 1914. It formed the basis for the more successful B- and C-type aircraft from AEG.

==Operators== *{{flag|German Empire}} **''Luftstreitkräfte''

==Specifications (AEG B.I)== thumb|AEG B.I {{Aircraft specs |ref= |prime units?=met

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==See also== {{Aircontent| |related= |similar aircraft= * AEG B.II * AEG B.III

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==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last1=Herris |first1=Jack |title=A.E.G. Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes |date=2015 |publisher=Aeronaut Books |location=n. p. |isbn=978-1-935881-28-5|series=Great War Aviation Centennial Series|volume=16}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051003210047/http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/aegb1.htm AEG B.I at the Virtual Aviation Museum]

{{AEG aircraft}} {{Idflieg B-class designations}} {{World War I Aircraft of the Central Powers}}

B.I Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft Category:Biplanes Category:1910s German military reconnaissance aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1914 Category:Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear Category:Single-engined piston aircraft

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