Albatros C.X

The Albatros C.X was a military reconnaissance aircraft built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke, essentially an enlarged development of the C.VII designed around the new Mercedes D.IVa engine that became available in 1917. Unlike the C.VII it used a radiator mounted on the top wing spar, first tried on the C.V/17, and it added provision for oxygen for the crew and for radio equipment. It entered service with the Luftstreitkräfte in 1917, mainly for aerial reconnaissance and artillery spotting, and by October 1917 roughly 300 were believed to be operational. It saw combat through the latter part of the First World War.