The Trident was designed to comply with the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . The Trident features a
strut-braced hang glider-style
high-wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-
tandem open cockpit with a rigid boat hull, retractable
tricycle landing gear and a single engine in
pusher configuration. The aircraft is made from bolted-together
aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in
Dacron sailcloth and its boat hull made from either
fibreglass or
carbon fibre and
Kevlar. Its span Hazard wing has struts and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled,
two-stroke,
dual-ignition Rotax 582 engine or a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled,
four-stroke,
dual-ignition Rotax 912UL engine or a converted
Smart Car four stroke
turbocharged engine. All engines are fitted with a clutch that stops the propeller from turning when the engine is at idle to permit water handling. The boat hull features a water
rudder. Starting in 2005 the frame and wing portion of the aircraft was taken from the
Skyrider Sonic ultralight trike, built by
Skyrider Flugschule. ==Variants==