Albatros L 59

The Albatros L 59 was a single-seat German utility aircraft of the 1920s. It was a single-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane with a large, spatted, wide-track undercarriage attached, unusually for the time, not to the fuselage but to the wing roots, and the whole aircraft was covered in three-ply. It was flying by September 1923. One was built, with a 60 horsepower Siemens-Halske Sh.4 five-cylinder radial engine, and the two-seat L.60 variant used an 80 horsepower Sh 5 seven-cylinder radial. The L 59 had a wingspan of 10.3 metres, an empty weight of 350 kilograms and a maximum speed of 140 kilometres per hour.