The order for 5000 for the United States Army Air Corps was canceled when the First World War ended.

The first design by Grover Loening after he had formed his company was a two-seat braced-wing monoplane fighter the M-8.

It had a fixed tail-skid landing gear and was powered by a nose-mounted Hispano-Suiza engine with a tractor propeller.

Data from United States Navy aircraft since 1911[1]General characteristics Performance Armament

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