Pop's Props was an American
aircraft manufacturer, founded by Scott Land in about 1994 and based in
Cooksville, Illinois. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of
ultralight aircraft
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailer ...
in the form of plans and kits for
amateur construction and operation under the US
FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles
Ultralight aircraft in the United States are much smaller and lighter than ultralight aircraft as defined by all other countries.
In the United States, ultralights are described as "ultralight vehicles" and not as aircraft. They are not requ ...
rules.
[Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, pages B-46, B-65. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ][Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook'', pages 222-223. BAI Communications. ][Downey, Julia: ''1999 Kit Aircraft Directory'', Kitplanes, Volume 15, Number 12, December 1998, pages 61-62. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851]
All the company's designs were of wood and
fabric construction. The first was the
Pop's Props Pinocchio, introduced in 1994. The Pinocchio is a single seat
First World War fighter replica and three were flying by 1998. The
Cloudster, a single seat
parasol wing ultralight followed in 1995 and the
Zing
Zing or ZING may refer to:
*Zing (model-checker), infrastructure for verification of concurrent software via model checking
*Zing (punctuation) or irony punctuation, invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s
*Zing (quartet), the 2010 S ...
, a derivative of the Cloudster, in 1996.
Land became interested in selling the designs and closing the company early in the 21st century. In 2010 Jeff Erekson made an offer to buy the designs and the deal was completed in February 2011. Erekson formed
Simplex Aeroplanes to sell the Cloudster and Zing aircraft.
Aircraft
References
{{Pops Props aircraft
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft