Albatros L 56

The Albatros L 56 was an experimental open transport biplane built by the German aircraft maker Albatros. It was cancelled before entering service, once other transport aircraft such as the Fokker F.II, the Junkers F 13 and the Sablatnig P.III had been built and offered a better route for early commercial air transport. The aircraft used a single Benz Bz.IV engine. Its recorded dimensions are a length of 9.25 metres and a span of 15.68 metres, with a weight of 1040 kilograms empty and 1800 kilograms when flying. Because the type never went into production, it survives mainly as a footnote to the first wave of open-cockpit passenger and mail aircraft that followed the First World War.