The Albatros D.XI made it's first flight in February 1918, it was different from it's Albatros predecessors in many aspects.
It was made out of wood with fabric-covered wings and a fuselage covered in plywood. The unequal-span staggered wings had an inclined aerofoil-section braced by two I-shaped struts which eliminated the need for wiring.
For the first time, a rotary engine was fit into an Albatros airplane, it was a 160hp Siemens-Halske Sh.III and the unusually large propeller needed an excepcionally long undercarriage. It was armed with the 7,92mm forward-firing LMG/08 machine gun.
Two prototype were built and the second one featured a two-bladed propeller. As the trials were not found to be satisfactory, no production order was issued.
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