In the background is a Friedrichshafen FF.49 of the DLR [Deutsche Luft-Reederei]. The FF.49 floatplane flew in its civilian form a few passengers to this beach ressort at the Baltic (Ostsee). There is no clue where we are, but there might be something in the laying of the shells on the big holiday sand castle.
As ever lots of people has come to look into the camera.
The DLR had till the beginning of 1920 its own system of airframe identification. This one was identified W 7 (W stands for Wasserflugzeug - Seaplane]. Also at the side of the fuselage is the company logo of the DLR - a flag with a postal horn.
Later in 1920 DLR complied with the German civil registration authority to paint these machines with the standard German civil registration (D followed by numbers).
Tags: Beach. DLR Deutsche Luft Reederei FF.49 Friedrichshafen
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A beach scene at Sellin on the peninsula Rügen, located at the Baltic Sea. Enormous numbers of holiday bathers. Note the many numbere beach seats which could be hired.
Taxiing to the open sea is a L.F.G. [Luft Fahrzeig Gesellschaft] V.13 biplane floatplane. Compare this biplane with the somewhat earlier picture of the Friedrichshafen FF.49. The machine is more advanced and more civil like, where passengers are seated in a closed cabin with large windows. The L.F.G. firm produced during WW1 with the name Roland.
Tags: 1925 Biplane D-1049 Floatplane Germany LFG V.13 bathers
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Happy bathers on a beach at the Baltic sea posing for the camera. In the background is a Friedrichshafen FF.49 employed by the airline Lloyd-Luftverkehr Sablatnig. This airliner was founded in October 1920 and merged in 1923 with the Deutsche Aero-Lloyd. The picture can be dated as summer 1921, 1922 or 1923.
The Friedrichshafen FF.49 was a 1917 built machine, which was stripped of armament and military equipment. Also the Balkenkreuz and the mostly big size Marine number painted on the fuselage are removed. The two or three passengers that could be carried were seated in the fuselage where earlier the gunner / observer was seated.
Right under the elevator can be seen in very small letters the Fabr. Nr. (factory number). Unfortunately I cannot decipher the number.
On the rudder can also be seen the civil registration in also very, very small writing. Ar least the D can be clearly read but the numbers (probably three digits) are too faded to interprete.
Tags: 1921 Civil FF.49 Floatplane Friedrichshafen Germany Loyd-Luftverkehr Sablatnig Post-WW1 Sablatnig bathers
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After the war several Friedrichshafen FF.49 biplane floatplanes were used for flying to the Baltic coast ressorts. The price for flying was probably hefty. These late war time military machines were modified with the passenger together in an open seat in the front (IMO about 3 or 4 passengers at maximum) and the pilot at the back (behind a windscreen !). Lots of pictures have survived where these machines are surrounded by holidaying and bathing people. Can be dated somewhere between 1919 - 1921. This picture is only 7 * 4,5 cm, heavily faded and damaged. It has a heavy raster on the picture.
Tags: Biplane Civil FF.49 Friedrichshafen Germany Post-WW1 pleasure flight
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After the war German airplane factories struggled to survive. As no military production was allowed they turned to civlian machines. A sample can be seen here at a beach resort somewhere at the Baltic sea. The floatplane is a Friedrichshafen FF.71a, a model designed after the war by Friedrichshafen which first flew in April 1919. Of course it has great similarity with the wartime floatplanes of this factory. Passengers - 3 pf them at the max - were carried in an open cabin, placed behind the pilot. As noted in this picture the passengers were dressed in suitably attire, long leather coats. Later closed cabins were installed by the Sablatnig firm. In 1921 an extra 5 FF.71a machines were built by LFG.
The civil registration can just be seen as D-40.
Tags: 1919 1920 Baltic Beach D-40 FF.71a Friedrichshafen Germany Post-WW1 Norderney
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