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Wouldn't you rather be here? Based on the very popular STOL CH 701 design from Chris Heintz that was first introduced more than twenty years ago, the all new STOL CH 750 design incorporates all of the 701's amazing short-field capabilities, while maximizing cabin size and load carrying capability allowed under the FAA's new Sport Pilot / Light Sport Aircraft category.

Like the original, the STOL CH 750 aircraft was developed as an "off-airport" short take-off and landing kit aircraft to fulfill the demanding requirements of both sport pilots and first-time builders.  Designer Chris Heintz has combined the features and advantages of a "real" airplane with the short-field capabilities of "ultralight" aircraft. The aircraft features fixed leading-edge slats for high lift, full-span flaperons (both ailerons and flaps), an all-flying rudder, and durable all-metal construction.

The all-new STOL CH 750 design is available as a new easy-to-build kit which promises to revolutionize ease and simplicity of construction, drawing upon Zenith's decades of experience in the kit industry.

  • Amazing short take-off and landing (STOL performance)
  • Surprisingly competitive cruise speed
  • Huge cabin, side-by-side seating, easy access
  • Spectacular "wrap-around" visibility
  • Many engine choices: Continental, Jabiru, Rotax, Corvair, and more...
  • Outstanding controls: full length flaperons and all-flying rudder
  • Great bushplane capabilities, simplicity of a tricycle gear.
STOL CH 750 with the 801 and 701

The new STOL CH 750, between the utility STOL CH 801 and the original STOL CH 701.

The October 2008 issue of EAA Sport Pilot & Light Sport Aircraft magazine reports the following:

The Chris Heintz-designed STOL CH 701 is a workhorse. It has been performing short takeoff and landing (STOL) duty for 20 years and has developed a cult following. Its big brother, the STOL CH 801, is a lot bigger, with twice as many seats and room inside.   So, with small and large STOL machines, what else would Chris Heintz fans want? How about a mid-sized S-LSA STOL machine? They have one: the new STOL CH 750.   It looks a lot like the CH 701, but it’s different in significant ways: it’s wider, and it is available ready-to-fly with the TCM (Continental) O-200. Its gear is stronger and wider, and visibility is improved.   The CH 750 is 2 inches taller and 11 inches longer and has a 2-foot 9-inch greater wingspan than the CH 701; wing area is 144 square feet, as opposed to the smaller plane’s 122. Horizontal tail surface area is up by 17 percent; empty weight is 33 percent greater, and gross weight is up by 18 percent, to the LSA limit of 1,320 pounds.  Useful load is now 545 lbs., 25 percent greater than the CH 701. And increased fuel capacity can use up virtually all of that: it hold 24 gallons, versus the smaller machine’s 20.  Even with the bigger engine, the faster, bigger, heavier plane has 10 percent greater range, and performance is improved in nearly all dimensions.

From EAA Sport Pilot & Light Sport Aircraft magazine, October 2008

STOL CH 750

Build your own STOL CH 750 aircraft from:

  • Complete Kit: Everything you need to build your own STOL CH 750.
  • Component (Section) Kits allow you to "buy-as-you-build"...
  • Plans-Only: Detailed Drawings and Photo Assembly Manuals permit you to "scratch-build" the entire aircraft (parts and components can also be purchased individually).
  • Professional Builder Assist Centers / Fast Build Kits.
  • Fly-away STOL CH 701 Light Sport (S-LSA) from Aircraft Manufacturing and Design (AMD) ...details coming soon.
  • Starter Kit: The rudder starter kit allows you to gain hands-on experience while actually starting to build your own aircraft... for just $375.  You can also assemble the Starter Kit at a hands-on workshop held right in the factory at no additional cost.
Internal wing assembly, using "match-hole" technology, is ready to cleco together:
STOL CH 750 Prototyp: CNC drilled and cut wing skeleton (left wing).  © 2008, Zenith Aircraft Company.

Many Great Kit Features, Easier and Quicker to Build Kit:  
The all-new STOL CH 750 kit includes many CNC pre-cut and pre-drilled skins and components, and also includes CAD Drawings and Photo Assembly Manuals.

  • Click here to view a video clip of parts manufacturing with the CNC router (3 min. / 5.75 mb).

Pre-drilling and cutting skins

STOL CH 750 instrument panel


Cover, February 2009, Kitplanes The STOL CH 750 on the cover of the February 2009 issue of Kitplanes magazine (now on newsstands): 

KITPLANES magazine, February 2009 issue, cover: "Zenith's Zinger! The new STOL CH 750 Light Sport: Continental O-200 - Modern, Roomy, Robust - Around $40K!"  Cover story and flight review by LeRoy Cook, pages 8 - 14. "The Zenith STOL CH 750 is a logically designed evolution of a well-proven design. Given the improved kit production techniques, it should go together in a predictable fashion, even more quickly than the CH 701."
On the cover, December 2008 issue December 2008:
Featured on the cover of Aviators Hotline magazine:  The STOL CH 750 is offered as a factory-built S-LSA (light sport aircraft) manufactured by Zenair and AMD of Eastman, Georgia.
Video Clip: Flying the STOL CH 750 NEW VIDEO CLIPFlying the STOL CH 750
Rudder workshop

Start building your own STOL CH 750 at a factory workshop for just $375.00 and gain-hands-on building experience. 
Workshop participants are also given a chance to go up for demo flight

Next Workshop: January 29 & 30, 2009

At left: Factory workshop participants, in front of the STOL CH 750, from the October 10, 2008 at the Zenith factory in Mexico, Missouri.

Video Clip: Flying the STOL CH 750 VIDEO CLIPSTOL CH 750 short take-off and landing from dirt field
Leading Edge Wing Slats Assemblies November 2008:
STOL CH 750 builder Jim Smith of Claremore, Oklahoma sent this photo of his wing leading edge slats assemblies:

"Total time spent from unpacking the crate to the finished slats was nine hours!"


 

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Designer Chris Heintz with the STOL CH 701 
Designer Chris Heintz with the STOL CH 750 Prototype
(between the STOL CH 801 and STOL CH 701)

 


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