Albatros L 69

The Albatros L 69 was a two-seat German parasol-monoplane racing and training aircraft of 1925, a single-engine machine of conventional configuration that seated pilot and passenger in tandem, open cockpits. It was advertised as a trainer, but contemporary reports dismissed this because of the difficulty of reaching the front cockpit and the designers' focus on performance. In 1925 the Albatros test pilot Kurt Ungewitter won Class D of the Deutsche Rundflug in an L 69a, and he was killed in one in a crash two years later. Two L 69 examples had Bristol Lucifer engines and two L 69a examples had Siemens-Halske Sh 12 engines.