what is it?
The Albatros J.I was an armored ground attack airplane designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Albatros Flugzeugwerke. It saw active combat during the final months of the First World War. The J.I was a "J-class" derivative of the Albatros C.XII reconnaissance aircraft; it shared both the wings and tail of the C.XII while adopting a new semi-armoured fuselage to protect its occupants from the anticipated ground fire from conducting low-altitude attack and reconnaissance missions over the battlefield.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · biplane · 14.1 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 109 years ago, in 1917.
- Wingspan of 14.1 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1917
- introduced
- 1917
- retired
- 1921
- status
- retired
- number built
- 240
- role
- ground-attack aircraft
- makers
- Albatros
- engines
- 1× Benz Bz.IV
- length
- 8.8 m
- wingspan
- 14.1 m
- height
- 3.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,808 kg
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- range
- 350 km
- ceiling
- 4,500 m
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2481018, Wikipedia: Albatros J.I (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.