The BA 100 Aerobat features a cantilever low-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear, or optional conventional landing gear, and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The all-metal aircraft is made from sheet aluminum. Its 18.41NaN1 span wing lacks flaps and has a wing area of 63square feet. The cabin width is 22inches. The acceptable power range is 70to and the standard powerplant is the 700NaN0 Volkswagen air-cooled engine. For aerobatics the BA 100 is stressed to +/-9g
The BA 100 Aerobat has a typical empty weight of 348lb and a gross weight of 620lb, giving a useful load of 272lb. With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is 212lb.
Factory kit options included conventional landing gear and a STOL kit. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 150 hours.
By 1998 the company reported that 33 kits had been sold and 28 aircraft were flying.
In December 2013 three examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.[2]
