__NOTOC__ The Albatros L102 (company designation) / Albatros Al 102 (RLM designation), was a German

trainer aircraft A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...

of the 1930s. It was a

parasol-wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...

landplane, seating the student

pilot An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...

and instructor in separate, open cockpits. A biplane floatplane version was also built as the Al 102W, with strut-braced lower wings.

Variants

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*L102L :The landplane version with tailwheel undercarriage and parasol monoplane wing. Eight built. * L102W :Two examples built as biplane floatplanes, one of which was designated as the Focke-Wulf Fw 55W. ;Al 102L :RLM designation for the L102L landplane ;Al 102W :RLM designation for the L102W floatplane

Specifications (L102L)

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German Aircraft between 1919-1945
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