what is it?
The Albatros L 58 was a German airliner of the 1920s. It was a single-engine cantilever monoplane which accommodated the pilot in an open cockpit at the top of the fuselage, and seated five-six passengers within it.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Wingspan of 18 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1923
- number built
- 9
- role
- airliner
- makers
- Albatros
- engines
- 1× Maybach Mb.IVa
- passengers
- 5
- length
- 10.9 m
- wingspan
- 18 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,250 kg
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- range
- 540 km
- ceiling
- 3,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q827372, Wikipedia: Albatros L 58 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.