The A-36 is a development of the Aeroprakt A-26 Vulcan. The design goals for the A-36 include operations over hostile terrain, the ability to take-off and land with only one engine running and the ability to operate from short runways. The resulting design features a strut-braced high-wing, T-tail, a two-seats in tandem configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and twin engines in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is of mixed construction, with the forward fuselage made from fibreglass and the tail cone from aluminium sheet. The wings and tail are aluminium, while the main landing gear legs, engine cowlings and fairings are fibreglass. Its 11.41NaN1 span wing has an area of 15.7m2 and mounts flaps. The standard engines used are the 1000NaN0 Rotax 912S four-stroke powerplant.
The A-36 has an empty weight of 450kg (990lb) and a gross weight of 750kg (1,650lb), giving a useful load of 300kg (700lb).
By December 2012 one example had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.[2] It had previously been publicly exhibited at the April 2009 Sun 'n Fun aviation gathering at Lakeland, Florida.