01/31/2015. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The C.VIII was a three-seater reconnaissance and light bomber built in 1928. The semi-cantilever wing was plywood covered and the steel-tube fuselage by fabric and aluminum sheet. Power plant was a 600 hp Hispano-Suiza 12Lb twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled V-engine. Armament was one downward firing gun in rear cockpit plus two ring-mounted machine guns in the central observer's position. This type was designed in accordance with a Dutch LVA (Luchtvaartafdeling, Air Service) request for a larger reconnaissance and observation aircraft than had been available up to 1928. Originally, the wing span was 46 ft 0 in (14.03 m) but this was increased to 49 ft 2.6 in (15.00 m) with a consequent improvement in performance. Only one example was built and this was serialed 651 by the LVA.

For sea reconnaissance duties a floatplane version of the C.VIII was developed for the Dutch Navy, this was the C.VIII-W."