In 1980, Don Stits designed the Baby Bird, a tiny, high-wing monoplane intended to be the smallest in the world. It was constructed of steel tubing in the fuselage and a wooden wing of only 6 feet 3 inches (1.9m). It had a tricycle landing gear and a lightweight German-made Hirth engine of 55 hp with an 11-foot fuselage (3.4m). It made 35 flights and in 1984, it was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Smallest Monoplane in the World,"