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    Airframe Family: Albatros C.I
    Latest Model:C.I
    Last Military Serial:197/15 IGAS
    Last Civil Registration:D-142
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1915

    Constructed as a C.I.

    1915

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Imperial German Air Service with s/n 197/15.

    1915

    To Officers School Detachment of Radio Operators.
    Based at occupied Warsaw.

    Circa 1920

    To Lloyd Ostflug, Berlin with new c/r D-142.

    By 1936

    Placed on display with Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung, Berlin, Berlin.
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    1943

    Transported by rail
    Due to frequent bombardments of Berlin evacuated to eastern Germany.

    1945

    Captured near village of Hammer (now Kuznica Czarnkowska) by the Polish Army together with some two dozens of other airplanes from the Berlin collection. They were in poor condition, most did not have wings. Some have been cut up with axes and hacksaws, probably during hasty evacuation from Berlin the planes were adjusted in size to fit into rail wagons.

    From 1945 to 1963

    Stored in various places in Poland.

    1963

    To Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    By 1993

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: F16+C.I.197/15
    Original wartime markings reinstated.

    30 August 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.
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     Lost Art Database
    Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
    Samoloty w Lotnictwie Polskim
    Individual Contributors
     Marcin Rogowski
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