Albatros C.II

The Albatros C.II was a 1916 German military pusher biplane designed and built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke. Only one prototype was built and the type did not enter production. It used the wings and landing gear of the earlier C.I but replaced the conventional fuselage with a short nacelle holding a 150 hp Benz Bz.III engine in a pusher layout with a two-bladed propeller. The observer and gunner sat in an open cockpit at the front and the pilot behind. The tail was an open frame with a conventional fin and rudder and was nicknamed the Gitterschwanz, the lattice tail. It should not be confused with the OAW C.II, an unrelated tractor aircraft built the same year by the subsidiary Ostdeutsche Albatroswerke at Schneidemühl.