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Airdrome Fokker D-VIII

The Airdrome Fokker D-VIII is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Airdrome Aeroplanes, of Holden, Missouri. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

The aircraft is a 3/4 scale replica of the First World War German Fokker D.VIII fighter, built from modern materials and powered by modern engines.

Design and development

The Airdrome Fokker D-VIII features a parasol wing monoplane layout, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. The kit is made up of twelve sub-kits. The Airdrome Fokker D-VIII has a wingspan of and a wing area of . It can be equipped with engines ranging from . The standard engine is the Rotax 503 two stroke engine or Rotax 377, with a Volkswagen air-cooled engine optional. Continental A65 engines and Lycoming O-145 powerplants have also been used. Building time from the factory-supplied kit is estimated at 400 hours by the manufacturer.

Operational history

Twenty-one examples had been completed by December 2011.

Specifications (Fokker D-VIII)

References