It first flew on 8 October 2006 and its flight test programme led through the revised ViS-5 to the Kharkiv State Aviation Plant built KhAZ-30 (ХАЗ-30) production aircraft, which first appeared in public on 22 May 2012.

The development programme has brought small but significant changes to the design, chiefly in the removal of forward sweep and the addition of dihedral and flaps.

These have straight edges and constant chord and are braced by a single streamlined strut on each side, forward leaning from the lower fuselage to the wing.

A 73.5 kW (99 hp) Rotax 912 ULS flat four engine in the nose drives a three-blade propeller.

A fixed tricycle undercarriage has spring cantilever main legs and cantilever-mounted, castoring nosewheel.