BFW N.I

The BFW N.I was a prototype German night bomber of the First World War, built by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, the company that was reconstituted as Messerschmitt AG in 1938. In August 1917 Idflieg instructed BFW to develop a night bomber able to carry 500 kg of bombs. The result was a two-seat triplane powered by one 190 kW Mercedes D.IVa inline engine. It first flew in the summer of 1918 but did not enter production. The aircraft was 9.20 m long with a wingspan of 14.50 m and a height of 4.70 m, and it weighed 1,500 kg empty and 2,500 kg at gross weight. Its armament was one fixed, forward-firing 7.9 mm Parabellum MG14 machine gun and up to 744 kg of bombs.