Flush-Mounted Lighting
The Tiger’s anti-collision and landing lights are flush-mounted to provide optimum aerodynamic qualities and maintain the smooth lines of the rivetless design.

Differential Braking Steering
When taxiing, the Tiger steers with differential braking and a castering nose gear. This gives the plane exceptional maneuverability—it can turn in its own wingspan. Plane & Pilot says the system “provides more directional control than you can imagine.” Flying says: “Once you get the hang of it, you wonder why any light airplane maker would do it differently.”

Split-Nose Bowl Cowling
The Tiger’s split nose design allows easy access to the engine for maintenance—without having to remove the prop.

Tubular Carry-Through Wing Spar
The Tiger is blessed with a one-piece, carry-through 6.5"-diameter 2024-T3 aluminum tube wing spar. This unique, exceptionally thick design provides utility-rated construction for unmatched stability and wing strength—and helps give the Tiger its storied agility and trademark smooth flight.

Flush-Mounted Lighting
The Tiger’s anti-collision and landing lights are flush-mounted to provide optimum aerodynamic qualities and maintain the smooth lines of the rivetless design.

Corrosion Proofing
Every piece of metal on the Tiger is either chem-filmed aluminum or cadmium-plated steel—for completely corrosion-proof construction. The result: an exceptionally durable airplane design is now even more durable.

Luxurious Cabin
Settle into the supple leather seats and grip the leather-sheathed yoke. Enjoy the individual comfort of the rear ventilation system. Bond with the ergonomic design and completely new IFR panel. Now you can add comfort to the list of reasons to fall in love with the Tiger.

Sliding Canopy
The Tiger’s unique fighter jet-like canopy design slides back for entry. You can taxi with the canopy open, and even fly with it partially back under certain conditions. You’ve never had more fun with the wind in your hair.

Bonded Honeycomb Construction
No rivets. No composites. No weakness. The body of the Tiger is made of rock-solid, super-strong aluminum honeycomb. The wings, fuselage, and all control surfaces are aluminum bonded, for a design that is four to six times stronger than riveted construction. It all adds up to a level of stability not usually found in general aviation production planes.

Exceptional Visibility
The Tiger’s large cabin windows and sliding canopy provide unmatched views. Or, as Flying magazine Senior Editor Robert Goyer puts it: “Once you get used to the vistas, you won’t want to go back to more conventional views. This isn’t just a plus for sight-seeing…but for safety, as you can keep your eyes on traffic much more easily in a Tiger than in just about any other kind of production light plane I’ve flown.”

Machined Aluminum IFR Panel
The Tiger’s instrument panel features a three-control power quadrant (carb heat, throttle, mixture), Garmin 430 GPS/com radios, an S-Tec 30 two-axis autopilot, turbine-style engine gauges and room for TCAS, a stormscope, radar altimeter or CD player. Fuel and oil pressure information is transmitted to panel gauges by transducers for increased safety. See the Specs page and click on “View IFR Panel” for details.

Cargo Space
The new Tiger ably handles 120 lbs of cargo, enough for a week's worth of luggage, plenty of product samples, or toys for the beach house or the golf links. And when business or pleasure demands more, simply lift out the rear seat cushions, fold down the backrests, and the cargo space more than doubles!

Rivetless Aluminum
By eliminating rivets, we didn’t just make a stronger airplane (each rivet needs a hole which introduces inherent weakness into the airframe), we made it faster and more beautiful as well. The smooth lines of the Tiger’s spinner-to-tail rivetless aluminum skin visibly display its exceptional aerodynamics and structural strength.

Its body is new. Its soul is timeless.

What does it take to create a Tiger? Start with the heart of a Grumman fighter. Frame it in rock-solid bonded honeycomb construction. Cover it in rivetless aluminum skin. Deck it out with imported leather seats and a full stack of Garmin avionics. It all adds up to an icon of general aviation.

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