Hansa-Brandenburg W.17

Overview

The Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 was a single-seat fighter flying boat designed by the Hansa-Brandenburg Aircraft Company (Hansa Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke) for the Austro-Hungarian Navy's (German: Kaiserlich und königlich Kriegsmarine) Naval Aviation (German: Kaiserlich und königlich Seefliegerkorps) during the First World War. It was developed from the Hansa-Brandenburg CC in 1917. Two prototypes may have been built, a biplane and possibly a triplane; the existence of the latter has not been confirmed. Neither was given a production contract after the biplane crashed.