The company appears to have gone out of business in 2012 and production curtailed.[3]
The Stinger is a development of the Preceptor N3 Pup. It features a strut-braced parasol wing, a single-seat, open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 30.51NaN1 span wing is the same as used on the Pup and has a wing area of 122square feet. The wing is supported by cabane struts and "V" struts, with jury struts. The cockpit width is 22.8inches. The acceptable power range is 35to and the standard engine used is the 500NaN0 Volkswagen 1600cc, four cylinder, air-cooled, four stroke automotive conversion powerplant. The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a 500NaN0 engine is 1000NaN0 and the landing roll is 1500NaN0.
The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 400lb and a gross weight of 660lb, giving a useful load of 260lb. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is 200lb.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 450 hours and the cost to complete the aircraft at US$22,000-26,000 in 2011.
By 1998 the company reported that three kits had been sold and one aircraft had been completed and was flying. By 2011 the company reported that two were flying.
