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The Bede BD-8 was an aerobatics aircraft developed in the United States in the mid-1970s. It was a low-wing single-seat monoplane of conventional configuration albeit very short-coupled and of all-metal construction. The single prototype was under construction by Jim Bede when his company Bede Aircraft faced bankruptcy in 1977. The incomplete BD-8 was purchased by Mike Huffman who completed its construction in 1980; it first flying on May 14 1980.