The Sportster was designed by Jesse Anglin of Henderson, North Carolina. It was derived from his earlier design, the Warner Spacewalker II, to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a single-seat or a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit which can be optionally enclosed under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.[3]
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, with its wooden wings covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its 28.51NaN1 span wing has an area of 112.1square feet. The standard engine available is the 1000NaN0 Continental O-200 four-stroke powerplant. The 125to Lycoming O-290 has also been used.[1] [2] [4]
As of March 2017, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.[5]
By March 2017 five examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, all in the experimental category.[6]