This LVG C.VI was probably never operational but was used by a civilian air transport company in Danzig. Rebuilt with components from other LVGs stored at the Evere airfield, it entered the museum's collection in 1925 and was suspended from the ceiling of the 1914-18 hall until 1970, when it was transferred to the mezzanine of the newly created Air Museum. After an initial but unsuccessful attempt to restore it in the mid-nineties, work was resumed in 2000.

Accident at Johannisthal, the old mecca of German aviation. It was alternatively called Adlershof ('eagle's yard') after another adjacent Berlin neighbourhood. DLR were based here between 1919 and 1922 when they moved to Staaken. Before the allocation of D numbers from March 1920, the airline's aeroplanes got a fleet number, still worn here in small print. The aircraft is a LVG C.VI Kabine although the cabin of the converted reconnaissance plane is crushed here. D-14 had another crash near Hamburg on 8 May 1922, but was repaired, and seems to have survived with successor airlines Deutscher Aero Lloyd and DLH until 1928. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Loaned by the Air Council to the Shuttleworth Collection in late 1959. First post-restoration flight on 28 September 1972. Here on a rare appearance away from its Old Warden base as part of the air display. The CAA later insisted all airworthy Shuttleworth Collection aeroplanes should have civil registrations, so unused G-AANJ was allocated in October 1981. The loan was reconfirmed in 1994 and maintenance serial 9239M was issued. The last flight was on 20 November 2003 when the loan was terminated and it went to RAF Cosford on 12 November 2003 where it has remained since in a dismantled state.

Loaned by the Air Council to the Shuttleworth Collection in late 1959. Seen here on static display, the first post-restoration flight was by Allen Wheeler two months later on 28 September 1972. The CAA later insisted all airworthy Shuttleworth Collection aeroplanes should have civil registrations, so unused G-AANJ was allocated in October 1981. The loan was reconfirmed in 1994 at which point maintenance serial 9239M was issued. The last flight was on 20 November 2003 when the loan was terminated and it went to RAF Cosford on 12 November 2003 where it has remained since in a dismantled state.

This was probably the final flight of this rare bird. It is now on static display with the RAF Museum.

The aircraft has now been grounded and is back with the Air Historical Branch at the RAF Museum at Cosford. My taxi for the day is in the background - Auster G-APRO.

A real old stager built 1918 and seen at the Battle Over Britain Air Display in 1990.