The SR-1 Snoshoo features a cantilever mid-wing, 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 fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing covered in carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer fairings ahead of the wing and doped aircraft fabric aft. Its 19.911NaN1 span wing is made from Sitka spruce wood, has no flaps and has a wing area of 66square feet. The cockpit width is 22inches. The acceptable power range is 95to and the standard engine used is the 1000NaN0 Continental O-200A powerplant, as required by the Formula One rules. The aircraft is stressed to +/-8 g[3]
The SR-1 Snoshoo has a typical empty weight of 530lb and a gross weight of 760lb, giving a useful load of 230lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is 200lb.
The designers estimate the construction time from the supplied plans as 1500 hours.
By 1998 the company reported that 20 kits and sets of plans had been sold.
In March 2014 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.[4]