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what is it?
The Loening M-8 was a 1910s American fighter monoplane designed by Grover Loening and built by his Loening Aeronautical Engineering Company. The order for 5000 for the United States Army Air Corps was canceled when the First World War ended.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 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 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 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
- 1918
- number built
- 55
- role
- monoplane fighter
- makers
- Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation
- engines
- 1× Wright-Hisso H-3
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.3 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2 m
- max take-off weight
- 934 kg
- top speed
- 233 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,706 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4450735, Wikipedia: Loening M-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.