Aircraft Designation Codes
| A | Artilleriebeobachtungsflugzeug | artillery observation aircraft, single seat monoplane trainer or reconnaissance aircraft |
| B | Beobachtungsflugzeug | reconnaissance aircraft, two-seat, unarmed, after 1915 used as trainers only |
| C | reconnaissance aircraft, two-seat, armed, occasionally used as bomber, usually biplanes | |
| CL | light, two-seat biplane, used as fighter, trainer or ground attack aircraft | |
| D | Doppeldecker | biplane, single engined, single seat fighter (later, for all fighter aircraft) |
| Dr. | Dreidecker | triplane, single engined, single seat fighter |
| E | Eindecker | monoplane, single engined, single seat fighter (use abandoned after Fokker E.V) |
| G | Großflugzeug | big aircraft, twin engined, multi-seat bomber |
| R | Riesenflugzeug | giant aircraft, four engined, multi-seat long range bomber |
| J (I) | Infanterieflugzeug | ground attack aircraft |
| N | Nachtflugzeug | aircraft for operation at night |
| W | Wasserflugzeug | seaplane, single seat fighter |
| LW | leichtes Wasserflugzeug | light seaplane, single seat fighter |
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