The Star Trike was designed in 1980 has been in production ever since. It fits the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category. The design features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat or a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its single or double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its 101NaN1 span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. A range of powerplants can be fitted, including the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine and the twin cylinder, air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 600NaN0 HKS 700E engine.
In its single seat agricultural version the aircraft has an empty weight of 1700NaN0 and a gross weight of 472.50NaN0, giving a useful load of 302.50NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 2710NaN0.
A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including the Air Creation XP 15.