what is it?
The Fokker E.V was a German parasol-monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The E.V was the last Fokker design to become operational with the Luftstreitkräfte entering service in the last months of World War I. After several fatal accidents due to wing failures, the aircraft was modified and renamed Fokker D.VIII. Dubbed the Flying Razor by post-war pulp-fiction writers, the D.VIII had the distinction of scoring the last aerial victory of the war.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.3 m wingspan
base stats
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 108 years ago, in 1918.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1918-05
- number built
- 289
- role
- fighter
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 1× Oberursel UR.II / Oberursel Ur.III / Oberursel Ur.II
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 5.9 m
- wingspan
- 8.3 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 605 kg
- top speed
- 204 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q705192, Wikipedia: Fokker D.VIII (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.