The piston engine-powered CH-8 ultralight series use the traditional "penny-farthing" layout with two-bladed main and tail rotors.

The pod-and-boom fuselage has a carbon fiber and epoxy resin cabin with a long transparent forward-opening canopy.

The frame is built on aeronautical SAE 4130 chrome molybdenum steel tube [1] and welded in spatial reticulated configuration.

The steel frame also carries the engine, semi-exposed behind the accommodation and connected to the main rotor shaft by a belt drive.

A slender aluminium boom, strengthened by a pair of long struts to the lower fuselage frame, carries both the tail rotor and swept fins.