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In 1992, J. Jakóbowski has introduced a vast generalization of Moulton's 1902 construction of projective planes, which partly covers concepts of Pickert, Pierce, Yaqub and others. For many of the planes arising from these constructions the Lenz-Barlotti classes are known. However, up to now, no one has tried to undertake an extensive survey on the classes of these planes. Given a half-ordered commutative field \((F,\leq)\) and two permutations \(g\), \(h\) of \(F\) that are either both order-preserving or both order-reserving, Jakóbowski considers the incidence structure \({\mathcal P}_{g,h}(F)\) consisting of the affine points \((x,y)\), the points at infinity \((m)\), \((\infty)\), the lines \(\{(x,mx+ t)\mid x\in F, x\geq 0\}\cup\{(x, g^{-1}(h(m) g(x)+ g(t)))\mid x\in F, x<0\}\cup \{(m)\}\), the vertical lines \(\{(c,y)\mid y\in F\}\cup\{\infty\}\), and the line at infinity \(\{(n)\mid n\in F\}\cup\{(\infty)\}\), where \(x\), \(y\), \(m\), \(t\), \(c\) run over \(F\). Under certain additional assumptions on \(g\) and \(h\), \({\mathcal P}_{g,h}(F)\) is a projective plane. In 1995, G. F. Steinke has already solved the isomorphism problem for these planes presenting an overview over their collineation groups. Making heavily use of these results, he now studies central collineations of \({\mathcal P}_{g,h}(F)\) in detail. In particular for finite planes, for (fully) ordered planes, and for two-dimensional topological, i.e. flat, planes he presents necessary and sufficient conditions for \(g\) and \(h\) (and \(F\)) determining the Lenz-Barlotti class of \({\mathcal P}_{g,h}(F)\). In the finite case, the classes VII.2, IV.b.3, IV.b.2 and IV.b.1 occur, in the ordered case the classes VII.2, IV.b.1, III.2, II.1, I.2 and I.1, and in the flat case the classes VII.2, III.2, II.1, I.2 and I.1. Examples for all these instances are included.