Pfalz D.XV

The Pfalz D.XV was a German single-seat fighter, the last of the biplane fighters built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke, approved for production right at the end of the First World War and too late to enter service. It differed from earlier Pfalz types in having both mainplanes clear of the fuselage and no flying wires, with a single bay layout, outward leaning N form struts and one piece wings from tip to tip, the smaller lower wing having elliptical tips. It used a 185 hp BMW IIIa water-cooled six cylinder inline engine with a rectangular radiator in the upper nose. Developed over the summer of 1918, it took part in the third D-type trial in October 1918, was judged high performing and manoeuvrable though tail heavy and hard to land, and received its type approval on 4 November 1918. Several were built, and 74 completed fuselages stood in the Pfalz works when the Allies inspected them in the autumn of 1919.