Twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150C turboprop engines driving 6-bladed propellers provide the STOL performance with takeoff runs of less than 3,000 ft (914 m).
Prototype engineering began in 2000 at Aircraft Design Services Incorporated in San Antonio, Texas.
A company called Micro Craft was chosen to build the prototype, with plans to build subassemblies at a factory in Huntsville, Alabama, and to assemble the prototype at Gwinnett Airport in Atlanta.
American Utilicraft entered a memorandum of understanding with the San Juan Pueblo (now known as the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) to build a production aircraft assembly plant in northern New Mexico.
[citation needed] Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 2010–11[2]General characteristics Performance