One of the four designs submiited to the German Air Ministry in February 1934 to meet the requirement for a single seat fighter for the luftwaffe (the others being the Focke-Wulf Fw 159, and Heinkel He 112 and the Messerschmitt Bf 109). Five prototypes were built but further work on the Ar.80 ceased when the Messerschmitt was accepted for service,
