What's this aircraft???

[Theodor]

Hi,

A couple of days ago got a small album of a Bulgarian WWI officer /maybe pioneer... engineer... or something like this/. Anyway, he was in or near a WWI airfield here on the Balkans. And I would like to find out if it was Bulgarian or German, which was it, what aircraft and what units were there...

Unfortunately the pictures are about poststamp size, very unusual for WWI /usually they are postCard, not postStamp size.../, but it is the fact From what I can see, I really can understand... nothing. The aircraft are not well seen, both Germans and Bulgarians can be seen near them... here:

Fortunately there is one small clue! One machine has made a bad landing and on its tail is well seen its number: B 1508 So, according to this number, what type of aircraft was it? And by chance, in which unit did it fly???

[Theodor]

Fortunately there is one small clue! One machine has made a bad landing and on its tail is well seen its number: B 1508 So, according to this number, what type of aircraft was it? And by chance, in which unit did it fly???

[Theodor]

Ok, the search goes on, the results so far:

On the pictures I managed to spot one more serial number, B 1503.
An aircraft of the very same type stands in a book about the aircraft used in Bulgaria since WWI and it has the number B 1510.

And all they are.......... LVG B.II

All matches, found out that aircraft s/n B1471 to B1510 were 1915 order LVG B.II /the 1915 order was the 3rd order for those LVG, it was for 100 machines, first serias of 40 followed by 60 more/.

And from those 1915 series LVG B.II, 12 machines were delivered to Bulgaria, 6 in November 1915, the rest - in 1916. Though unarmed, they were very successfully used for reconnaissance.

So, no matter that from that airfield - Belitza or Ksanty??? - also operated Germans /see the picture below/, the machine standing on its nose and many of the others are the Bulgarian LVG.

[Theodor]

Here Bulgarians, at least one for sure /BTW, IMHO the machine on the second picture, with the Germans, is LVG B.II probably, while the machine on this picture is Albatross B.I /: