The Farman brothers, Henry and Maurice established a collaborative business to produce aircraft, although they retained their independent activities. In 1910 Maurice began experimentation with a design which lead to the Farman MF-7, an unequal-span biplane with a multiplicity of struts and bracing wires and fitted with a pusher engine,

The Farman III, which has also been referred to as the Henri Farman 1909 or 1910 Biplane in order to distinguish it from aircraft built by his brother Maurice, was one of a series of aircraft designed and developed by Henri Farman in France from 1909, the design being copied