It is possible Richthofen was flying a new Albatros D.II, a model ordered into production August 1916. Regarding Albatros manufacture norms, generally there was an approximate window of two months between production order and arrival of the first machines, which in this case identifies October as when the D.IIs appeared with Jasta 2. However, the exact date of the August production order is unknown and if inked at the end of August, the first D.II arrivals likely would have been closer to November. An album of Jasta 2 photographs includes shots of the D.II presumed to be Richthofen’s (darkly overpainted with a white stripe on the nose, similar to the appearance of Albatros D.I 391/16) amongst photographs of Oswald Boelcke, which speculatively dates these D.II photos as being taken before or around the time of Boelcke’s 28 October death.Being that Richthofen’s Albatros D.II is thought to have been 481/16, this means that the D.II was a very early production machine (the tenth out of a batch of fifty) and it would have been one of the earliest to arrive. Still, while it is possible Jasta 2 began receiving Albatros D.IIs in mid-October, suggesting Richthofen could have flown one during his fifth victory on the 15th of that month, their arrival is unknown precisely. Additionally, it is possible that for a brief period Richthofen flew both the Albatros D.I and D.II. The arrival of the D.II did not mean the extent D.Is just « went away ». Many Jasta 2 photographs show both models were used simultaneously, and Richthofen’s later combat reports reveal he often switched between machines during consecutive sorties.