J.Herris Albatros Aircraft of WWI. Vol 1: Early Two-Seaters (A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes 24)

Albatros Pre-War Aircraft

   To get aircraft production started, Albatros first built licensed French designs. In 1909 the first aircraft build by Albatros was the French Antoinette monoplane powered by a 50 hp Antoinette engine. In 1910 this was followed by an Antoinette powered by a Gnome rotary, then other Antoinette airframes powered by different engines, including a 100 hp Argus.

M.Dusing German Aviation Industry in WWI. Volume 1 (A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes 84)

Albatros-Werke GmbH, Berlin-Johannisthal (Alb)

  Captain (ret.) Dr. Walther Huth carefully studied the development of aviation, especially the progress in France.
  Believing in the positive signals and in the conviction of a profitable business, Dr. Huth had a hangar built for 6,000 Marks at the first German airfield at Johannisthal near Berlin. The company founded here under the name “Ikaros-Gesellschaft” intended to carry out demonstration flights all over Germany with one and two-seater Antoinette monoplanes. In 1910, a Farman III biplane was added. At the first international air show in August 1909, the Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne, the Farman machine had won the long distance prize and the Antoinette the high altitude prize. These machines were used as training aircraft and as patterns for license replication in the later Albatros factories. In addition to the Antoinette and Farman types, the three best-known Albatros replicas were the French summer biplane. All aircraft were successfully flown and used in student pilot training.
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Aircraft Development:

  1909/10: The first design launched by Albatroswerke was a monoplane based on the French Antoinette type. A 50 hp Antoinette engine was installed in the 1909 model on an experimental basis, and a 100 hp Gnome rotary engine in the 1910 model.
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