The American is either a tandem two-seat or single seat helicopter first flown in July 1988. It has an aluminium alloy enclosed cockpit with a twin skid landing gear and non-moving tail surfaces. The American has a twin-blade single rotor made from glassfibre and no tail rotor, on the prototype a 2800NaN0 Wankel rotary engine drives a centrifugal compressor that provides air to thrust jets on the tips of the blades.