![]() In 1917, the D.I entered Austro-Hungarian service and saw active operations in the final years of the First World War it was commonly used for aerial reconnaissance missions, as many fighter units continued to prefer using the German-built Albatros D.III conducting air superiority operations. It was manufactured both in-house and under license by a number of subcontractors. The D.I was the first locally designed fighter aircraft to be adopted into the Austro-Hungarian Air Service ( Luftfahrtruppen). Julius von Berg, and to distinguish it from the D.I fighter built by the parent Aviatik firm in Germany. It was also known as Berg D.I or the Berg Fighter, because it was designed by Dipl. ![]() ![]() The Aviatik (Berg) D.I, was a single-engine, single-seater biplane fighter that was developed and manufactured by the Austro-Hungarian branch of German aircraft company Aviatik.
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