The Banty was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 2540NaN0. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of 2370NaN0. It features a strut-braced parasol wing, a single-seat open cockpit with a windshield, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from wood with its flying surfaces covered doped aircraft fabric. Its 321NaN1 span wing utilizes flaps and has a wing area of 128square feet. The wings are supported by "V" struts with jury struts and can be folded for ground transport or storage. The cabin width is 22inches. The acceptable power range is 28to and the standard engine used is the 280NaN0 Rotax 277 single cylinder, two-stroke powerplant. With this engine the standard day take-off roll is 2201NaN1 and landing roll is 2001NaN1
The Banty has a typical empty weight of 237lb and a gross weight of 500lb, giving a useful load of 263lb. With full fuel of the payload for pilot and baggage is 233lb.
The plans included detailed parts drawings, a materials list and construction instructions intended to assist inexperienced builders. The designer estimates the construction time from the supplied plans as 500 hours.
By 1998, the company reported that 1820 sets of plans had been sold and 30 aircraft were flying.
