Voisin III | |
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Role | Bomber |
Manufacturer | Voisin |
Designer | Gabriel Voisin |
First flight | 1914 |
Introduction | 1914 |
Retired | before 1922 |
Primary users | Aéronautique Militaire Imperial Russian Air Service Corpo Aeronautico Militare |
Produced | 1914–1916 |
Number built | 1,350+ |
Developed from | Voisin L |
Variants | Voisin IV and Voisin V |
The Voisin III was a French World War I two-seat pusher biplane multi-purpose aircraft developed by Voisin in 1914 as a more powerful version of the 1912 Voisin L. It is notable for being the aircraft used for the first successful shooting down of an enemy aircraft on October 5, 1914, and to have been used to equip the first dedicated bomber units, in September 1914.