{{Infobox aircraft | name = Albatros C.IV | logo = | logo_size = | image = Albatros C-IV (4822147675).jpg | alt = | caption = Albatros C.IV | long_caption = | other_names = | aircraft_type = Reconnaissance aircraft | aim = | outcome = | related = | national_origin = Germany | manufacturer = Albatros | design_group = | designer = | builder = | issuer = | status = Prototype only | owners = | primary_user = | more_users = | service = | major_applications = | proposals = | prototypes = | number_built = 1 | construction_number = | civil_registration = | military_serial = | radio_code = | requirement = | aircraft_carried = | flights = | total_hours = | total_distance = | construction_date = | introduction = | retired = | first_flight = 1916 | initiated = | in_service = | last_flight = | expected = | developed_from = Albatros C.III | variants = | developed_into = | preservation = | fate = | predecessors = | successors = | concluded = }}
The '''Albatros C.IV''', (Company post-war designation L.12). was a German military reconnaissance aircraft built in the autumn of 1915 by Albatros Flugzeugwerke.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lamberton|first=William Melville|title=Reconnaissance & bomber aircraft of the 1914-1918 war|year=1962|publisher=Aero Publishers|page=122}}</ref> It was a single-engined biplane, and was based on the Albatros C.III, with which it shared many parts. It was eventually abandoned, in favour of the C.V.
==Design and development== The C.IV shared the same fuselage, landing gear, and tail section with the C.III, but Albatros changed the design of the wings and cockpit; the pilot was located in the rear cockpit.<ref>{{cite book|title=German aircraft of the First World War|year=1962|publisher=Putnam|author=Peter Laurence Gray|author2=Owen Gordon Thetford|page=254}}</ref> When it was tested in 1916, the expected results of the changes did not occur, and the project was abandoned in favour of a more promising prototype, which became the Albatros C.V.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/albc3.html |title=Albatros C.IV |access-date=December 28, 2010 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222132826/http://airwar.ru/enc/other1/albc3.html |archive-date=22 December 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The C.IV was armed with a forward-firing LMG 08/15 machine gun, and a rear-firing, Parabellum MG14 machine gun.
==Specifications== {{Aircraft specs |ref=<!-- reference --> |prime units?=met <!-- General characteristics --> |genhide= |crew=2 |capacity= |length m=8 |length note= |span m=12.4 |span note= |upper span m= |upper span ft= |upper span in= |upper span note= |lower span m= |lower span ft= |lower span in= |lower span note= |height m=3.1 |height note= |wing area sqm=41.2 |wing area note= |airfoil= |empty weight kg=798 |empty weight note= |gross weight kg=1240 |gross weight note= |max takeoff weight kg= |max takeoff weight lb= |max takeoff weight note= |fuel capacity= |more general= <!-- Powerplant --> |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Mercedes D.III |eng1 type=Inline piston engine |eng1 kw=118 |eng1 note= |power original=160PS |thrust original= |more power= |prop blade number=<!-- propeller aircraft --> |prop name= |prop dia m=<!-- propeller aircraft --> |prop dia ft=<!-- propeller aircraft --> |prop dia in=<!-- propeller aircraft --> |prop note=
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==References== {{commons category}} *Cowin, H.W. ''German and Austrian Aviation of World War I''. Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2000 {{ISBN|1-84176-069-2}} *{{cite book |last1=Herris |first1=Jack |title=Albatros Aircraft of WWI: Volume 1: Early Two-Seaters: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes |date=2016 |publisher=Aeronaut Books |location=n.p. |isbn=978-1-935881-47-6|series=Great War Aviation Centennial Series|volume=24}}
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