Albatros L 78

The Albatros L 78 was a two-seater biplane reconnaissance aircraft created in 1928, a revamp of the Albatros L 76. It was armed with two 7.9 millimetre machine guns, one of them on a turret, and used a BMW VI engine. It was tested at the German flight testing centre at Rechlin-Lärz Airfield in 1928, and six or seven were used by the secret German air force training school at Lipetsk in Russia from 1929 until the school closed in 1933, the survivors returning to Germany. At least four were wrecked in crashes at Lipetsk. The type had two modifications, a reconnaissance bomber and a transport aircraft with passenger windows and a door, and 14 were made in total.