Midwest Questar XLS


The Midwest Questar XLS is an American ultralight aircraft that was designed and produced by Midwest Engineering of Overland Park, Kansas. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, but the plans were withdrawn on 29 June 2000.

Design and development

The Questar XLS was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of. The aircraft has a standard empty weight of.
The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, fixed tricycle landing gear without wheel pants and a single engine in pusher configuration.
The Questar XLS is made from bolted-together 6061-T6 aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has a wing area of, is supported by "V" struts and the wing can be detached in ten minutes for ground transport or storage. The acceptable power range is and the standard engines used are small two-stroke powerplants.
The aircraft has a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of, giving a useful load of. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and baggage is.
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off distance with a engine is and the landing roll is.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied plans as 200 hours.

Operational history

By 1998 the company reported that 70 sets of plans had been sold and that 10 aircraft were completed and flying.

Specifications (Questar XLS)