what is it?
The Albatros G.III (company L.21), was a German bomber aircraft development of World War I. It was a large, single-bay biplane of unequal span and unstaggered wings. Power was provided by two Benz Bz.IVa pusher engines installed in nacelles carried between the wings. An unusual feature of the design was that the lower wing was provided with cutouts for the propellers, allowing the engine nacelles to be mounted further forward than would have been otherwise possible.
How to recognise it: 2 engines · 18 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 110 years ago, in 1916.
- Wingspan of 18 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1916
- introduced
- 1917
- number built
- —
- role
- bomber
- engines
- 2× Benz Bz.IVa
- length
- 11.9 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- height
- 4.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,150 kg
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- range
- 600 km
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q324229, Wikipedia: Albatros G.III (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.