The Tanarg was designed as a long-range cruising trike to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 472.50NaN0 with a ballistic parachute. It is also an accepted Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the United States. The Tanarg 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.[3] [4] [5]
The aircraft is made from mixed constriction, with bolted-together aluminium tubing, composites and carbon fibre panels, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. With the BioniX wing it has a 9.851NaN1 span that is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant options include the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine and the four cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 800NaN0 Rotax 912UL and 1000NaN0 Rotax 912ULS engines. With the 912 engine the aircraft has an empty weight of 2490NaN0 and a gross weight of 472.50NaN0, giving a useful load of 223.50NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 1830NaN0.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic trike, including the Air Creation iXess, Air Creation Nuvix, Air Creation Fun and Air Creation BioniX.