The Freedom 40 featured a
strut-braced high-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit with a door, fixed
conventional landing gear and a single engine in
tractor configuration. The aircraft was made from
pop rivetted sheet
aluminum. Its span wing had a wing area of and could be folded for ground transport or storage. The cabin width was . The acceptable power range was and the standard engine used was the
Hirth 2702 two-stroke powerplant. The Freedom 40 had a typical empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of in the aircraft's wing tanks the payload for the pilot and baggage was . To simplify construction, the design had no complex parts to make and no compound curves to form. In 1998 the plans sold for
US$250.00. Completion cost for the
airframe alone was estimated at US$3000.00 in 1998. ==Operational history==