The Albatros C.I began to reach frontline units towards the end of April 1915. It flew in reconnaissance, artillery spotting, bombing and photography roles. This plane belonged to Herman Göring's private collection, the Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung (German Collections of Aircraft), exhibited near the pre-WWII Berlin railway station. After several pieces were lost during a bombing attack in 1943, the remaining planes were hurridly and crudely dismantled and transported east for safekeeping. After the war the surviving remnants of the collection became became part of this great museum.