Albatros L102

The Albatros L102, known to the German air ministry as the Albatros Al 102, was a two-seat trainer aircraft built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke in the 1930s. The landplane version, the L102L, was a parasol-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, and the student pilot and instructor sat in separate open cockpits. A biplane floatplane version with strut-braced lower wings, the L102W, was also built. Eight landplanes were completed, and two floatplanes were built, one of which was designated as the Focke-Wulf Fw 55W. Power came from a single Argus As 10C inverted V-8 air-cooled piston engine of 177 kilowatts, giving the landplane a maximum speed of 210 kilometres per hour and a service ceiling of 5,000 metres.