The Team Mini-Max Hi-MAX is a single-seat, high wing, strut-braced, single engine aircraft available in kit form for amateur construction.
After that company was bankrupted by a lawsuit production passed to Ison Aircraft also of Bradyville, Tennessee and next to JDT Mini-MAX of Nappanee, Indiana.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][8] The Hi-MAX was developed from the mid-winged Mini-MAX family of single seat kit aircraft and it shares many similar features with the earlier design.
[6] The Hi-MAX is predominantly constructed from wood truss with plywood gussets and covered with doped aircraft fabric.
The standard specified engine today is the 40 hp (30 kW) Rotax 447 which results in a 328 lb (149 kg) empty weight and places the aircraft in the US Experimental - Amateur-built category.