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what is it?
The Pfalz D.VIII was a German World War I fighter aircraft.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.5 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.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1918
- introduced
- 1918
- number built
- 40
- role
- fighter
- origin
- German Empire
- makers
- Pfalz-Flugzeugwerke
- engines
- 1× Siemens-Halske Sh.III
- crew
- 1
- length
- 5.7 m
- wingspan
- 7.5 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 738 kg
- top speed
- 190 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q324479, Wikipedia: Pfalz D.VIII (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.