DS-1 "Baby Bird" | |
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Stits DS-1 Baby Bird | |
Role | Homebuilt aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Designer | Don Stits |
First flight | 25 August 1984 |
Number built | 1 |
The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane.[1]