Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Albatros D.V - Foreign users

We keep drawing the Albatros airplanes until it was eventually incorporated into Focke-Wulf, and now it's the turn for the Albatros D.V. This time focusing on the few foreign users.

The Albatros D.V was a German fighter airplane widely used by the Imperial German Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during the World War I. It was the final development of the Albatros D.I and the last Albatros fighter to be operationally employed. In spite of its obsolescence and faults in many aspects, approximately 2500 D.V were manufactures in both of its variants, the D.V and D.Va.

As this post is dedicated to the foreign users, those are:

  • Ottoman Empire: The German Jasta 1F, which operated under Ottoman markings, received at least six airplanes in mid-to-late 1918. As we couldn't only find text references to those airplanes, the drawing must be considered as speculative.
  • Turkey: Those ex-Ottoman airplanes were taken over by the Turkish Army which used to equip some fighter squadron which took part in the Turkish Independence war.
  • Poland: The Polish authorities bought an Albatros D.V from a German pilot in Gdansk on 13th May 1920 and it was assigned to the newly created Polish Naval Air Squadron based on the city of Puck. It served until November 1922 when it was written-off.












Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatros_D.V

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