The C.VI was a development of the C.V with a water-cooled,
inline 6-cylinder Benz Bz.IV piston engine. It replaced the earlier aircraft's upper
gull wing with a conventional
two-bay wing and added a
vertical stabilizer. The
propeller spinner of the earlier aircraft was eliminated, but the C.VI retained the two-seat configuration of the C.V with the
pilot in the forward
cockpit and the
observer in the rear cockpit. Aviation historian Jack Herris notes that when the
German Army's () Inspectorate of Flying Troops () initially awarded contracts for license building another company's design, the aircraft received a designation in the builder's sequence; for example Aviatik manufactured the
Halberstadt D.II as the Aviatik D.I. Sometime in late 1916 decided to reduce the confusion and added an abbreviation for the manufacturer after the designer's designation; thus the Aviatik D.I became the Halberstadt D.II(Av). awarded Aviatik and other companies a contract to build DFW C.Vs in October 1916 using the old naming system, but it was changed to the revised designation in subsequent batches as photographic evidence of aircraft with the stenciled D.F.W. CV(Av) name exists. ==Specifications==