The Albatros Dr.I was a triplane variant of the Albatros D.V and identical to that other one in many aspects.
It featured three pairs of wings and was flown for the first time in the summer of 1917 and was flown side by side with an Albatros D.V in order to compare it.
It was also powered by a Mercedes D.IIIa and, given that the advantage, compared to the D.V wasn't significant or, even discernible the development was abandoned and it never went beyond the prototype stage. It was armed with the usual pair of 7,92mm LMG 08 machine-guns which was very present in many German airplanes.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatros_Dr.I
2. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters
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