The aircraft was powered by a single water-cooled, 160-horsepower (120 kW) Mercedes D.III six-cylinder inline engine using a two-bladed fixed-pitch propeller.

It was armed with a pair of fixed, synchronized 7.92 mm (0.312 in) LMG 08/15 machine guns in the forward fuselage.

[1][2] Before the war's beginning in 1914, Dr. Waldemar Geest [de] designed and built a series of six monoplanes using his Seagull (Möwe) gull wing design that was intended to compensate for forward or lateral gusts of wind "by a varying angle of incidence and dihedral throughout the wing planform".

[4] During testing, the single-bay aircraft had a maximum speed of 160 kilometres per hour (99 mph) and reached a height of 3,500 metres (11,500 ft) in 17.5 minutes, but further development was not continued.

[5][6] Data from Aviatik Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes;[1] The Complete Book of Fighters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Built and Flown[2]General characteristics Performance Armament