The aircraft was also sold in the United States by Bateleur Sky Sports of Palm Coast, Florida in the early 2000s, under their own name.
It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.
Its 34 ft (10.4 m) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar.
[1] In the early 2000s the company had planned to phase the Windlass out, but customer demand has kept the model in production through 2012.
[3] The aircraft placed well in a number of European microlight competitions and was used to set an altitude record of 25,200 ft (7,681.0 m) in 1987.