__NOTOC__ Imperial German Navy seaplanes 463 to 466 were a unique seaplane design produced for the Navy's flying service during the First World War.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.449Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.154Taylor 1989, p.547 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. 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. The undercarriage consisted of twin pontoons. The large, square rudder was hinged to the rear end of the fuselage, and extended below the ventral line of the fuselage. The inline engine was neatly cowled in, with the exhaust being collected together in a single stack that extended above the upper wing.

Kaiserliche Werft Kiel Kaiserliche Werft Kiel ("Imperial shipyard Kiel") was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1867, first as Königliche Werft Kiel but renamed in 1871, with the proclamation of the German Empire. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig and ...

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 (, literally ''Mouth of the Warnow'') is a seaside resort and a district of the city of Rostock in Mecklenburg, Germany. It is located on the Baltic Sea and, as the name implies, at the estuary of the river Warnow. is one of the world's busie ...

the following summer. It remained there under test for well over one year, and was not finally accepted for service until summer 1918. This lengthy delay was possibly due to the aircraft being used as a trainer at Warnemünde itself. Two of the seaplane trainers ( No 461–462) built at

Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven (Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard) was a German shipbuilding company in Wilhelmshaven, founded in 1871 and closed in 1918. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig and Kaiserliche Werft Kiel it was one of three shi ...

were possibly built to substantially the same design, as was possibly one of the reconnaissance seaplanes ( No 947) built there.

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