The Nova was a two seat, three surface aircraft with a water cooled Rotax 563 engine with a pusher propeller. The engine turned out to be problematic and after successful flight tests the project was scraped. Dave Morss was the test pilot.

Below right is Richard Trickel and his wife Ruth sitting on the KIS (Keep It Simple) 2 place airplane that M. Hollmann had performed the stress analysis on. High Tech Composites  built parts for all  of the composite airplanes from 1986 to 2002. This included all the Lancair kit aircraft, Star*Kraft, Stallion, Discovery, CM44-A and more. Below right, are Lance Neibauer, Martin Hollmann, Richard Trickle and Richard Tracy, early partners in High Tech.