EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER Koloman Mayrhofer and his team at the Craftlab workshops near Vienna began constructing an exact reproduction Albatros D.III First World War fighter, the completed machine has been moved to the Deutsches Museum Oberschleissheim, just north of Munich. Owner Eberhard Fritsch hopes to have the aircraft flying during the summer of 2012, to mark both the centenary of Oberschleissheim airfield and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Bavarian Flying Corps at the airfield. The Albatros has been painted to represent an Austrian licence-built machine constructed by Oesterreichische Flugzeugfabrik AG (Oeffag) at Wiener Neustadt, and delivered to Fliegerkompanie (Flik) 51/J in June 1918. With the serial 253/24, it became the personal aircraft of the unit commander, Oberleutnant Benno Fiala Ritter von Fernbrugg, who became the third-ranking Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot, with 28 kills.
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