The LFG V 8 Bärbel (Barbel) in English) was a small, single-engined, biplane flying boat which carried two passengers.
[1] The Bärbel had a rectangular cross-section fuselage with a flat planing bottom, its main step close to the centre of gravity under the wings.
Behind it the rear fuselage had a narrower, V-section underside that ended at a second step midway between trailing edge and the tail.
LFG had experimented with sponsons and then with a wide hull to provide stability on the water with the earlier V 3 and V 3a flying boats but the Bärbel had deep wingtip floats attached directly to the wing under the outer interplane struts.
After its sale on 21 October 1920 to a Finn and LFG's receipt of an export permit in November,[2] it was used for journeys around the Baltic.