Fokker C.VIII

The Fokker C.VIII was a reconnaissance aircraft built in the Netherlands in the late 1920s, intended mainly for photographic reconnaissance. It was larger than Fokker's other reconnaissance types of the period, with room for a third crew member to act as camera operator, and it was Fokker's first aircraft of this type built as a monoplane, with a parasol wing; construction was still in the familiar Fokker style, with plywood and fabric covered wooden wings and a fabric covered steel-tube fuselage. A single landplane prototype with a 450 kW Hispano-Suiza 12Lb V-12 water-cooled piston engine was exhibited at the 1928 Paris Air Show and accepted into Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Group service, but no more were ordered. A seaplane version, the C.VIII-W with a Lorraine 12E Courlis engine and twin pontoons, was then built for the Royal Netherlands Navy, nine being delivered between 1930 and 1934.