The Spirit features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit that is 480NaN0 wide, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is made from aluminum sheet. Its 32.91NaN1 span wing has an area of 132square feet and mounts flaps. The wing is supported by "V" struts and jury struts. The aircraft's recommended engine power range is 100to and standard engines used include the 1000NaN0 Rotax 912ULS, 1000NaN0 Continental O-200 and the 1000NaN0 Lycoming IO-233 four-stroke powerplants.
The aircraft has a design maximum gross weight of 16530NaN0, but is restricted to 13200NaN0 if flown in the US light-sport aircraft category.[4]
The Spirit airframe is constructed in Colombia and then shipped to World Aircraft's facility at Henry County Airport in Paris, Tennessee for final assembly and paint. Kits shipped are fully assembled and then disassembled for customer delivery and may be shipped painted as well. Construction time from the supplied kit is estimated as 110 hours.
As of October 2012, the design appears on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.[5]
By December 2011 55 examples had been completed and flown.