The Jet Star was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category as well as the US light-sport aircraft category. It features a cable-braced or strut-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 Jet Star is accepted in the United States as both an Experimental and Special Light-sport aircraft.[2]
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The aircraft uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The main landing gear uses strut-type suspension, rather than the leaf-type suspension used on the Apollo Delta Jet series. The powerplant options include the 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 912 or 1000NaN0 Rotax 912S engine.
The aircraft has an empty weight of 1800NaN0 and a gross weight of 4300NaN0, giving a useful load of 2500NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 2180NaN0.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the cable-braced Aeros Profi, the cable-braced Air Creation iXess, the strut-braced Aeros Profi TL or the strut-braced Gibbogear Manta Ray 12.5.