12/15/2021. Remarks by
Johan Visschedijk: "This aircraft is a single-seat ultralight scale representation of the Piper Cub. Developed in the mid-1980s by Bob Counts, at the time vice-president production of Nostalgair Inc. of Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA, this type became available in ready to fly, plans, or kit form.
Designated N3 Pup, it was taken into production as a kit, including a hp Global Machine Tools (GMT) engine. (Nostalgair and GMT were situated on the same location.) By early 1985, a total of 125 N3 Pups had been ordered, of which 51 had been completed.
In 1988 Warren Mosler took over products of Nostalgair and GMT as Mosler Motors Incorporated (Mosler Airframe & Power Plants Company from 1991 on), as well as the Counts Wolfenpup N850BJ. By 1995 the N3 Pup was marketed by Preceptor Aircraft of Rutherfordton. By December 2011 a total of 830 N3 Pups had been completed.
The Counts Wolfenpup's registration, N850BJ, was cancelled on June 14, 2013, reasoned as expiration.
Type: Single-seat ultralight conforms to FAR Part 103.
Airframe: Strut braced high-wing cabin monoplane. Square-section fuselage, with fiberglass engine cowling. Bungee sprung 14 in (35.5 cm) main wheels; 4 in (10 cm) steerable tail wheel. Partially enclosed cockpit with windscreen. Options included floats, skis, main wheel brakes, cockpit doors and side windows, cabin heating and ballistic parachute. Rigging time 30 min.
Power plant: A 25 hp Global Machine Tools GMT 7892 920 cc two-cylinder four-stroke engine, directly driving a two-blade wooden propeller. Fiberglass fuel tank. Options included adjustable carburetor and 35 hp GMT engine.
