Zenith CH 750 Cruzer
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The CH 750 Cruzer is Zenith's on-airport version of the STOL CH 750: the same 42-inch cabin and 29 ft 9 in span but without the leading-edge slats, with a redesigned wing, a conventional tail and small faired wheels, built at 1,320 lb for light-sport or 1,440 lb design gross. With a 100 hp Continental O-200 Zenith quotes 118 mph cruise, a 39 mph stall, 1,200 fpm and 520 miles.
The Cruzer gives up the 701/750's absurd short-field numbers for 15-20 mph more cruise and a quieter wing, and it still gets off in 350 ft, so it is the Zenith for someone who flies from paved strips and wants a wide cabin and gull-wing doors. It is a kit aeroplane: the factory figures are for one engine at one weight, builders fit anything from an O-200 to a 130 hp UL Power or Viking conversion, and the empty weight, useful load and the quality of the pulled-rivet construction are the individual aircraft's, read from its weight-and-balance and build log. Zenith's two pages disagree on fuel capacity (20 or 30 gallons), so check which tanks were built. As an amateur-built aircraft the owner may maintain it and the condition inspection needs an A&P or the repairman certificate; parts and the builder community are current because kits are in production.
Variants of the Zenith CH 750 Cruzer
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Continental O-200 (reference; 80-160 hp approved, UL Power and Rotax 912 common) |
| Horsepower | 100 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | — |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 103 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 452 nm |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | 1,200 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 34 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 540 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 1,320 lb |
| Empty weight | 780 lb |
| Usable fuel | — |
| Fuel burn at cruise | — |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | $65,500 |
|---|---|
| Price, high | $99,000 |
| Prices as of | 2026 |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | — |
| Overhaul cost, high | — |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 151 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 140 |
| Median year built | 2021 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 13 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 2 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 92.861 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 64.292 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 35 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 253 |
| Airworthiness directives | 1 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 140 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 140 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 140 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 2 of 101 |
| Severity | 4.4 of 102 |
| Access | 6.5 of 103 |
| Support | 7.1 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 7.3 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 27.3 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 36.69 · 321 models in class.
- Severity: class median 13.04.
- Access: class median 1,000.
- Support: class median 77.5.
- Liquidity: class median 20.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 6 · scores Sep 30