Sharing elements of the highly successful C.V design, the C.VII-W was a conventional, single-bay biplane with wings of unequal span braced with N-struts.

The undercarriage consisted of a standard twin-pontoon arrangement, and the fin and rudder continued through to the ventral side of the fuselage, creating a cruciform tail.

The first twelve of the thirty examples produced were sent to the Dutch East Indies, with the rest remaining in the Netherlands.

The type was withdrawn from front-line service in 1940, but some machines remained active in the East Indies as trainers until the Japanese invasion in 1942.

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928[1]General characteristics Performance Armament