what is it?
The Pop's Props Zing is a single seat, open-cockpit, parasol wing, single-engine monoplane, first flown in 1996. The aircraft was designed by Scott Land and produced by Pop's Props of Cooksville, Illinois in the form of plans and an aircraft kit. The company is no longer in business and the aircraft kit is now available from Simplex Aeroplanes of Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 7.8 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 30 years ago, in 1996.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1996
- status
- in production
- number built
- 5
- role
- kit aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Pop's Props
- engines
- 1× Kawasaki 340-LC
- length
- 5.2 m
- wingspan
- 7.8 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 227 kg
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- cruise speed
- 88 km/h
- range
- 222 km
- ceiling
- 1,829 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7228927, Wikipedia: Pop's Props Zing (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.