This was the second powered aeroplane built by Waldo Waterman of San Diego, born in 1894 and then a teenager. In 1911 Waterman built the single place open cockpit biplane powered by a 20hp Cameron tractor engine that had cooling problems, which allowed only short flights.
It was destroyed in a windstorm at North Island outside San Diego in February 1912. Undaunted, while at UC Berkeley in 1913, Waterman began construction of a twin-tractor flying boat planned for use at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, but lack of funding forced abandonment after the fuselage was built.
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