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Stolp Acroduster

American homebuilt aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7618674 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Acroduster I SA700 is an American single-seat homebuilt aerobatic biplane.

Development

The Acroduster was an elliptical-winged biplane built with the intention of competing against the Pitts Special.

Design

The aircraft also owes some of its design to the Midget Mustang. The fuselage is of aluminum construction rather than the popular tube and fabric for the type. The wings are similar to the Stolp Starduster. Roll rate is 240 degrees per second.

Variants

Beets Special Marketed by Stolp.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Stolp Acroduster” as american homebuilt aircraft. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 78-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Stolp, Acroduster and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american homebuilt aircraft. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7618674. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stolp Acroduster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.