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{{Infobox aircraft
|name=LVG C.VI
|image=LVG C.VI.jpg
|type=Reconnaissance aircraft
|manufacturer=[[LVG (aircraft manufacturer)|Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft]] G.m.b.H.
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|first_flight=[[1917 in aviation|1917]]
|introduction=1918
|retired=
|status=
|primary_user=''[[Luftstreitkräfte]]''
|more_users=
|produced=1918
|number_built=1,100<ref name="Holmes">{{cite book |last= Holmes |first= Tony |title=Jane's Vintage Aircraft Recognition Guide |year=2005 |publisher=Harper Collins |location=London |isbn = 0-00-719292-4 |pages= 33}}</ref>
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The '''LVG C.VI''' was a German two-seat [[reconnaissance]] and [[artillery spotting aircraft]] used during [[World War I]].
==Development==
The aircraft was designed by Willy Sabersky-Müssigbrodt and developed by [[LVG (aircraft manufacturer)|Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft]] (LVG) in 1917. The C.VI was a further development of the [[DFW C.V|C.V]], which Sabersky-Müssigbrodt had made for his former employer [[Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke|DFW]]. It was lighter, smaller and aerodynamically refined, although its fuselage seemed more bulky. It was a [[biplane]] of mixed, mostly wooden construction. It featured a semi-[[monocoque]] fuselage, [[plywood]] covered. Rectangular wings of wooden and metal construction, canvas covered. Upper wing of slightly greater span, shifted some 25&nbsp;cm (10&nbsp;in) towards front. Vertical fin plywood covered, [[rudder]] and [[elevator (aircraft)|elevator]]s of metal frame canvas covered, stabilizers (tailplanes) of wooden frame canvas covered. Straight uncovered engine in the fuselage nose, with a [[chimney]]-like exhaust pipe. Two-blade Benz wooden propeller, 2.88&nbsp;m (9.45&nbsp;ft) diameter. Flat water radiator in central section of upper wing. Fixed conventional landing gear, with a straight common axle and a rear skid.
Aircraft were equipped with a radio (morse;send only); transmissions were by means of an antenna which could be lowered below the aircraft when needed. The crew had parachutes and heated flying suits.
A total of 1,100 aircraft of the type were manufactured.<ref name="Holmes"/>
Post-war several C.VIs with passenger cabins aft of the open cockpit were converted by Raab-Katzenstein as the '''LVG P.I''', '''LVG P.II''' and alternatively '''Raab-Katzenstein RK-8 Marabu'''.
==Operational service==
Most LVG C.VIs were used by the German military aviation in last operations of World War I, mostly on [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]], for close reconnaissance and observation.
After the war, ''Deutsche Luft-Reederei'' (DLR) used several C.VIs to provide mail and passenger transport service. The [[Polish Air Force]] used several aircraft during the [[Polish-Soviet war]], one left by the Germans, another completed from parts in 1920 and several more bought abroad.
''Suomen ilmailuliikenne Oy'' purchased two C.VIs in 1923, from a Swedish airline that had gone bankrupt in 1922, becoming the predecessor to [[Aero O/Y]] and [[Finnair]].
The Finnish Air Force purchased two aircraft; one destroyed in a spin in [[Santahamina]] in 1923, the other used until the end of 1924.
More than 20 were used by [[Lithuania]], two of which survived until 1940.
Three were used in [[Czechoslovakia]], two in [[Switzerland]] (1920–1929) and several in the [[USSR]].
==Survivors==
Today, there are three surviving C.VIs. One is currently being restored at the [[RAF Museum]] in Cosford, one is on display at the [[Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History]] in Belgium and the third one is at the ''[[Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace]]'' in Paris.
==Operators==
;{{BEL}}
*[[Belgian Air Force]]
*[[SNETA]]
;{{CZS}}
*[[Czechoslovak Air Force]]
;{{FIN}}
*[[Finnish Air Force]]
*[[Finnair|''Suomen ilmailuliikenne Oy'']]
;{{flag|German Empire}}
*''[[Luftstreitkräfte]]''
*''[[Deutsche Luft-Reederei]]''
;{{LAT}}
*[[Latvian Air Force]]
;{{LTU}}
*[[Lithuanian Air Force]]
;{{POL}}
*[[Polish Air Force]]
;{{ROU}}
*[[Romanian Air Corps]] - 11 aircraft used from 1919<ref>{{cite magazine|title=LVG C.VI|magazine=Modelism 2005-02|language=ro|author=Cornel Năstase|date=2005|page=6}}</ref>
;{{USSR}}
*[[Soviet Air Force]]
;{{SWE}}
*[[Swedish Navy]]
;{{CHE}}
*[[Swiss Air Force]]
==Specifications (C.VI)==
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* 90 kg (200 lb) of bombs
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==See also==
{{aircontent
|related=
*[[LVG C.V]]
|similar aircraft=
*[[Albatros C.XII]]
*[[DFW C.V]]
|lists=
*[[List of military aircraft of Germany]]
*[[List of military aircraft of Finland]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Herris |first1=Jack |title=LVG Aircraft of WWI: Volume 3: C.VI–C.XI & Fighters: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes |date=2019 |publisher=Aeronaut Books |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=978-1-935881-74-2|series=Great War Aviation Centennial Series|volume=36}}
*{{cite book |last1=Kabatek |first1=Mateusz |last2=Kulczynski |first2=Fr. Robert SDB |title=German Aircraft in Polish Service: Volume 1: Halberstadt Cl.II, Cl.IV, C.V; LVG C.VI; & Hannover Cl.V |date=2022 |publisher=Aeronaut Books |location=n.p.|name-list-style=amp |isbn=978-1-953201-58-4|series=Great War Aviation Centennial Series|volume=70}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Klaauw|first1=Bart van der|title=Unexpected Windfalls: Accidentally or Deliberately, More than 100 Aircraft 'arrived' in Dutch Territory During the Great War |journal=Air Enthusiast |date=March–April 1999 |issue=80 |pages=54–59 |issn=0143-5450}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Chołoniewski |first1=Krzysztof |last2=Bączkowski |first2=Wiesław |title=Samoloty wojskowe obcych konstrukcji : 1918-1939. T. 2 |date=1987 |publisher=Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności |location=Warsaw |isbn=83-206-0728-0 |language=pl}}
==External links==
{{Commons}}
*Lewis, Michael: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405154543/http://www.mikerlewis.com/index01.html  1914–18 Connections website. Restoration of Brussels Air Museum LVG CVI]
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