12/31/2019. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "A development of the C.VIII, the three-seat C.VIII-W long-distance reconnaissance seaplane was considerable larger, the cockpits were relocated and the Hispano-Suiza was replaced by a 450 hp Lorraine 12E Courlis liquid-cooled twelve-cylinder W-engine. Nine were ordered by the Dutch Navy in 1929, serialed G-1 to G-9.

The above pictured example was the first delivered on June 20, 1930, it was loaned to Fokker for display at the Paris Air Show in December 1930. For the transfer it was registered PH-AFQ between November 18, 1930 and January 18, 1931.

The type was also used for training observers and scouts, for torpedo launch experiments, and in June 1939 one was experimentally fitted an automatic pilot. All nine aircraft were still operational at the time of the German invasion on May 10, 1940. Four were lost in the hostilities, five escaped to the UK before the capitulation of the Netherlands. The survivors were withdrawn from service at the end of the month and were scrapped in 1941."