[1][2][3][4] The seaplane base at Kiel-Holtenau ordered the type as a training aircraft in 1915, and the Navy allocated a batch of four serial numbers to the design.

[1] No 463 and its siblings were conventional, two-bay biplanes with unstaggered wings of equal span and two open cockpits in tandem for the pilot and instructor.

[1][2] The inline engine was neatly cowled in, with the exhaust being collected together in a single stack that extended above the upper wing.

[1][2] Kaiserliche Werft Kiel received an order for three machines in October 1915, and the first of these (No 463) was delivered to the seaplane testing unit (SVK – Seeflugzeug-Versuchskommando) at Warnemünde the following summer.

[1] This lengthy delay was possibly due to the aircraft being used as a trainer at Warnemünde itself.