what is it?
The Albatros L.66 was a simple, low powered, two seat sports and training parasol wing monoplane, built in Germany in the mid-1920s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 9 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 102 years ago, in 1924.
- Wingspan of 9 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1924
- number built
- 10
- role
- light aircraft
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Albatros
- engines
- 1× Haacke HFM-2
- length
- 5.4 m
- wingspan
- 9 m
- max take-off weight
- 395 kg
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- range
- —
- wings
- high wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2830829, Wikipedia: Albatros L.66 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.