The LVG D.V was a prototype German biplane fighter built by LVG in World War I.

The D.V was a single-seat biplane fighter which featured a slab-sided plywood-covered fuselage as well as equal span wings, both of which had straight leading edges and rounded tips, but the upper wing chord was shorter, opposite to normal contemporary practice.

The rudder was almond-shaped and carried on a tubular spar, with the entire vertical tail moving.

Tests showed it be very fast yet hard to control; at the end of a test flight in July 1918, the D.V, piloted by its designer Paul Ehrhardt, crash-landed and was badly damaged.

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