Gotha WD.8

The Gotha WD.8 was a single-engine maritime patrol floatplane developed during World War I by Gothaer Waggonfabrik for the Imperial German Navy's Naval Air Service. The WD.8 was a single-engine version of the WD.7 developed for comparative purposes. The single prototype built was deemed "totally unsuitable" by the Naval Air Service and was later sold to the Ottoman Empire.

Design and description

The airframe of the WD.7 was used to create the WD.8 reconnaissance floatplane, substituting a single water-cooled Maybach Mb.IVa straight-six engine in the nose for the two wing-mounted engines of the earlier aircraft.