Friedrichshafen FF.49

Friedrichshafen FF.49 was a German, two-seat, single-engine float-plane designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917.

Variants

 * FF.39:Two-seat reconnaissance float-plane, powered by a 150 kW Benz Bz.IV water-cooled 6-cylinder piston engine. 14 built.
 * FF.49b:Two-seat bomber float-plane. 25 built.
 * FF.49c:Two-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.
 * 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.II:Seven 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.


 * 🇫🇮: Finnish Air Force (four FF.49C, one FF.49B; in use 1918–1923)
 * German Empire: Kaiserliche Marine
 * 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Deutsche Luft-Reederei
 * 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 Sablatnig


 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Royal Netherlands Navy
 * 🇳🇴: (four FF.49C, by A/S Aero)
 * 🇵🇱: Polish Air Force (postwar)
 * 🇸🇪: Swedish Navy (postwar), (two FF.49C, in use 1919–1924)