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Only 13 L 78 built, 6 plus 1 later sent to Lipetsk, four of these crashed

In 1928 a modernized version of the L.76 reconnaissance aircraft was developed and manufactured at the firm "Albatros Flugzeugwerke". The new aircraft was a fairly large two-seat bi-plane, armed with a 7.9 mm synchronized machine gun and another one in the aft seat. The powerplant of the aircraft consisted of a single BMW VI engine with a power of 600 hp.
Just as in the case of L.76, the main customer was the "secret" flight school in Lipetsk. At the end of 1928, seven L.78 aircraft were produced for Lipetsk .
L.78, arrived in Lipetsk in early 1929, two versions. The first was a classic type of reconnaissance bomber with a separate arrowshaped radiator located in front of the landing gear rails (on the L-76 and L-77 it was located behind the racks).
The second modification was more suited to the type of transport aircraft: the fuselage with a widened cabin, had an increased construction height, windows and a door were installed in its side walls. The machine-gun in the aft seat was removed (a plane of this type was used at the Shikhany training ground for working out the technique of spraying poison gases.) In the capacious fuselage of the "passenger" L-78, it was easier to place tanks with liquefied gas. The company produced six unarmed   aircraft. Almost all of them were transferred to DVS GmbH in 1932.

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