The aircraft have been produced as kits and completed aircraft by Zenair in Canada and Zenith Aircraft Company in the USA. The latest models in the Zodiac family are the ready-to-fly AMD Zodiac LS and LSi produced by Aircraft Manufacturing and Design. The aircraft is a single engine, two seat side by side low wing aircraft.The design has a single-piece bubble canopy. Models are available as tricycle undercarriage or conventional taildragger. The Zodiac airplane was developed by Avions Pierre Robin engineer Chris Heintz in the early 1970s. The Zenair CH 200 kit plane was developed as a Homebuilt aircraft, meaning that consumers can purchase the plane as components to assemble it themselves. Variants of the Zodiac have since been manufactured in Canada, Europe, United States and South America as a factory-assembled, ready-to-fly aircraft. For more details of the operational history of the Zodiac, in particular the groundings due to accidents, and for the 12 variants, click here. Specificaions below are for the AMD Zodiac XL variant with complies with ulralight specifications. Some variants are GA models. Conventional Undercarriage. Tricycle Undercarriage
