what is it?
The Aerosport Scamp A is a small biplane designed for home building by Harris Woods. It featured an open cabin, tricycle undercarriage, and a T-tail. The Scamp A first flew on August 21 1973, powered by an 1853 cc Volkswagen car engine.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · tricycle gear · 5.3 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 53 years ago, in 1973.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1973-08-21
- number built
- —
- role
- sport aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Aerosport
- engines
- 1× VW
- crew
- 1
- length
- 4.3 m
- wingspan
- 5.3 m
- height
- 1.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 348 kg
- top speed
- 169 km/h
- cruise speed
- 144 km/h
- range
- 200 km
- ceiling
- 3,658 m
- wings
- biplane
- landing gear
- tricycle gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4688465, Wikipedia: Aerosport Scamp (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.