The aircraft started out as a replacement set of wings for the Pitts Special and eventually a new fuselage was designed to go with the wing set. The resulting aircraft features a strut-braced biplane layout, with cabane struts, interplane struts and flying wires, a single-seat, enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from metal with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its wing span is only 161NaN1. The acceptable power range varies by each model. Standard equipment includes an inverted fuel system and rear-hinged canopy. Operational g loads are +7 and -5 g. The aircraft has a roll rate of 360 degrees per second.
The 10-200 version has a typical empty weight of 925lb and a gross weight of 1320lb, giving a useful load of 395lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is 263lb.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a 2000NaN0 engine is 4500NaN0 and the landing roll is 5000NaN0.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 1200 hours.
In March 2014 six examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of 12 had been registered at one time. Also in March 2014 two were registered in Canada with Transport Canada.[2] [3]