Voisin III

Voisin III
Role	Bomber Type of aircraft
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.