The Spider was sold in Europe by Flight Team UG & Company AG of Ippesheim, Germany and was sometimes called the Flight Team Spider.[2]
By October 2018 it was listed as a "legacy" product and production had ended.[3]
The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. The aircraft has a maximum gross weight of 4500NaN0. It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit with an optional cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The aircraft is made from composites and steel tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, but typical is a 10.51NaN1 span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 500NaN0 Rotax 503 or the twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition 640NaN0 Rotax 582 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of 1300NaN0 and a gross weight of 4500NaN0, giving a useful load of 3200NaN0. With full fuel of the payload is 2900NaN0.[4]
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a 500NaN0 engine is 300NaN0.
The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 150 hours.
By 1998 the company reported that 250 kits had been sold were flying.