The Skypper was designed as a simpler, lighter and less expensive carriage than the top-of-the line Air Creation Tanarg, to replace the Air Creation GT series in production. It was intended to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminium tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. Available powerplants include the a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine, the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 800NaN0 Rotax 912UL or 1000NaN0 Rotax 912ULS engine and the twin cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 600NaN0 HKS 700E.
With the Rotax 582 the aircraft has an empty weight of 2010NaN0 and a gross weight of 4620NaN0, giving a useful load of 2610NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 2210NaN0.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the Air Creation NuviX, Fun 450, iFun 16, iXess 13 and the BioniX.[2] [3]
When equipped with the Bionix wing and Rotax 912 engine the Skypper was €6,300 cheaper than the more sophisticated Air Creation Tanarg with the same engine and wing, in 2011.