Oeffag Va.153 - Austro-Hungarian users. Second entry.

We come back to the Great War in order to finish with the entries dedicated to the Va.153 with more native users for this airplane.

Powered by a 200hp Austro-Daimler engine, the Oeffag Va.153 proved to be robust, popular and effective, specially in the Italian front.

It featured various changes like having the Schwarzlose machine guns buried into the front part of the fuselage, and a different radiator than it's German counterpart. Many pilots decided to remove the propeller spinner because it was prone to fall-off in flight.

Also, from the 112th aircraft, of the production series, a new rounded nose was introduced, similar to the one that would be standard in the 253 series in order to achieve better aerodynamical speed and the removal of the controversial spinner.

It was the airplane choosen by Godwin Brumowski, the top Austro-Hungarian ace, who when the war ended, he had flown up to three of them, all of them painted completely in red (copying to Manfred von Richthofen) and with his characteristical skull-insignia.