[1] The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg).
Like many ultralights of the early 1980s, it was derived from the Eipper Quicksilver and generally resembles that aircraft.
The standard factory supplied engine was the Rotax 377 of 35 hp (26 kW) and it is mounted on the trailing edge of the wing, with the propeller in between the four tailboom tubes.
The aircraft can be assembled or disassembled for storage or ground transportation by two people in fifteen minutes.
[1] Ultralight Engineering went out of business after the fatal crash of a prototype of another design and production of the Astra ended at the same time.