To avoid this difficulty the inner, high dihedral parts of the GN-7's wing were unusually short (about 800 mm (31 in)) and integral with the plywood-skinned fuselage.
Behind the spar and drag strut the wing was fabric covered, though the ailerons, which occupied about half the span, were ply-covered.
The fuselage section became increasingly circular and slender back to a narrow, upright and integral fin.
A very narrow tailplane was forward-mounted at mid-fuselage and carried semi-elliptical, fabric-covered elevators well ahead of the rudder.
[1] The landing gear was also conventional, with a shallow, enclosed skid from near the nose to just aft of the wing spar.