09/30/2012. The last Albatros fighter of WW I actually completed and flown, the D.XII featured the slab-sided ply-wood-covered fuselage introduced by the D.X, and the first of two prototypes was flown in March 1918 with an 180 hp Daimler D IIIa engine.

The second prototype, fitted with a Bohme landing gear embodying compressed-air shock absorbers, and unbalanced ailerons of inverse taper in place of the balanced parallel-chord ailerons of the first prototype, followed in April 1918, and was later fitted with an 185 hp BMW IIIa engine for participation in the third D-type contest of October.