The Super Prospector has a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing and an optional pre-welded fuselage frame was available as part of the kit. The wing is predominantly of wooden construction, with all surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric and is supported by "V" struts, with jury struts. Its 29.671NaN1 span wing has an area of 120.8square feet. The acceptable power range is 50to and the standard powerplant used is a 600NaN0 Volkswagen air-cooled engine.
The Super Prospector has a typical empty weight of 440lb and a gross weight of 800lb, giving a useful load of 360lb. With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is 288lb.
The aircraft has been noted for its all-around pilot visibility and its STOL performance. Standard day, sea level take off distance is 3000NaN0 and the landing distance is 2500NaN0. The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 500 hours.
By 1998 the company reported that three kits had been sold.
In December 2013 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although at one time five had been registered.[2]
