[1] The Auster Tugmaster is a high-wing braced monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear and powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major engine.

[1] The Tugmasters had their engines modified to civilian standards as the Gipsy Major 10 and they were also fitted with larger tail surfaces.

[1][4] Each individual aircraft was stripped as necessary and re-built with minimum cost in a maximum of 400 manhours, with a selling price of £995.

[2] Other conversions were carried out by a number of organisations including one by British European Airways employees at London Heathrow Airport for their own gliding club at Booker.

Some surplus Royal Canadian Air Force Auster AOP.6 aircraft were also converted in Canada for glider towing.