Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O. II

The Zeppelin-Staaken V.G.O. I was joined on the eastern front near Riga by the Zeppelin V.G.O. II another of the Riesenflugzeug (giant aeroplane). It had the serial number R.9/15. Like the original, it joined Riesenflugzeugabteilung 500 in 1916. It was probably delivered to Ault-Auz (now in Latvia) a few weeks after Rfa 500's formation in Feb 1916, but there were probably several months of training and tuning before its first operation mission in August, when it attacked the rail junction at Schlok (now in Estonia) along with the Navy's V.G.O. I.