Fokker C.VIII

what is it?

The Fokker C.VIII was a reconnaissance aircraft built in the Netherlands in the late 1920s. Intended primarily for the photographic reconnaissance role, it was a larger machine than other Fokker reconnaissance types of the period, with space for a third crew member, who acted as camera operator. It was also Fokker's first aircraft of this type to be built as a monoplane, a parasol wing configuration.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 14 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 228 km/htop speed
• range 650 kmwithout refuelling
• size 2,400 kgmax take-off weight
• built 10made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 98 years ago, in 1928.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 14 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1928

number built

10

role

reconnaissance aircraft

origin

Kingdom of the Netherlands

makers

Fokker

engines

1× Hispano-Suiza 12Lb / Hispano-Suiza 12Y

crew

3

length

11.2 m

wingspan

14 m

height

3.2 m

max take-off weight

2,400 kg

top speed

228 km/h

range

650 km

ceiling

5,800 m

wings

high wing

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.