Wrecked Pfalz Triplane Photo

[musec]

Hello All,

Currently on ebay at:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Original-Foto...kAAOSwKtVWt0jh

is a photograph of a wrecked Pfalz Triplane. The wing strut shows a number 224.Is this 224/17 or is the number on the strut not related to the serial number?

Regards,

Clint

[sator]

I think it,s a production number but I,m not sure. There seems to be a another wheel just aft of the cockpit, from a collision with another aircraft ?

[Frommherz]

Jack Herris' book "Pfalz Aircraft of WWI" has a good side view of "DR.I 222/17" in use with Jasta 73.
The military serial number "222" is repeated on the strut in the same location as the "224" in this photo of a crashed DR.I, so it's fair to assume that the picture in question indeed shows "DR.I 224/17".

The "R" further up the strut informs the ground crew that this is the right hand interplane strut.

[musec]

Hi Sator,

Thanks for the reply. Not sure if the other wheel is there as the result of a collision or whether the aircraft has just been scrapped. I would be interested if anyone has any information on the fate of 224/17.

As you'll mote from the line above I still believe that the aircraft is 224/17 having subsequently compared the number on the strut with a photo of 222/17 in Jack Herris Pfalz Aircraft of WW.I P68 (Flying Press Edition). 222/17 has the same type of number on the strut and the serial in full on the fuselage.

Regards.

Clint

[machinist]

Here is another angle of the same crash.