HISTORY
The company was founded in
December 1909 by the
Alsatian Georges Chatel. It
started with the
license-production of French aircraft; Hanriot monoplanes
and Farman biplanes.
From 1912, the factory
started building its own
successful biplanes,
designed by Robert
Wild.
Just at the beginning of
World War One, on 1 August
1914 the company was
relocated to Freiburg due
to French threat, and then
to new facilities in Leipzig-Heiterblick
in 1916. The company did not
continue after the 1919 Treaty
of Versailles.
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