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This model depicts P-Types as built in the Friedrichshafen sheds - for Potsdam built versions please click HERE.
Introduced in 1915, 22 P-Types were built and were flown by both the German Army and Navy. Amongst the most famous was Navy ship L13 which, under the command of Heinrich Mathy “the greatest airship commander of the war”, delivered some of his most damaging bombing raids on London.
It was anoither Navy P-Type, L14 that was probably the most successful military airship ever built: from 1915 she made 526 flights including 24 attacks against Britain and survived the war.
For defence the P-Type carried machine guns in both the rear power car and front control gondola as well as having a three gun position on the top front of the hull.
Length: 536ft/163.5m; Powerplant: 4 x 210hp/157kW Maybach C-X petrol engines; Crew: 18; Range 2,670mile/4,300km
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