Pop's Props was an American

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, founded by Scott Land in about 1994 and based in Cooksville, Illinois. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of

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in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction and operation under the US

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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

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construction. The first was the

Pop's Props Pinocchio The Pop's Props Pinocchio is a single seat, open-cockpit, mid-wing, single-engine monoplane that was inspired by the Fokker Eindecker and first flown in 1994. The aircraft was produced by Pop's Props of Cooksville, Illinois and made available ...

, introduced in 1994. The Pinocchio is a single seat

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fighter replica and three were flying by 1998. The Cloudster, a single seat

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ultralight followed in 1995 and the Zing, 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

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to sell the Cloudster and Zing aircraft.

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