[1] It was built to test low weight, bakelite-bonded plywood, stressed skin wing and fuselage structures.

[2] Apart from the structure the Snark was a conventional looking low-wing four-seat cabin monoplane, powered by a nose-mounted 130 hp (97 kW) de Havilland Gipsy Major piston engine.

[4] This led to a high loaded/unloaded weight ratio of 1.82; the similarly engined, almost exactly contemporary 3/4 seat Miles Falcon had achieved 1.62.

In May 1936 the Snark was transferred to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough for research into the aerodynamics of thick wing monoplanes, with serial number L6103.

[6] Data from Aero Research Snark: British pre-war lightplanes No 3[7]General characteristics Performance