The Freedom 40 featured a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a door, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft was made from pop rivetted sheet aluminum. Its 281NaN1 span wing had a wing area of 112square feet and could be folded for ground transport or storage. The cabin width was 28inches. The acceptable power range was 28to and the standard engine used was the 400NaN0 Hirth 2702 two-stroke powerplant.
The Freedom 40 had a typical empty weight of 330lb and a gross weight of 600lb, giving a useful load of 270lb. With full fuel of in the aircraft's wing tanks the payload for the pilot and baggage was 210lb.
To simplify construction, the design had no complex parts to make and no compound curves to form. In 1998 the plans sold for US$250.00. Completion cost for the airframe alone was estimated at US$3000.00 in 1998.
In December 2013 there were no examples registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and it is unlikely that any exist any more.[2]
