The AVEO Phantom is a conventional looking high wing light aeroplane. It has been designed with safety and pilot frienliness uppermost in the designers minds.

The fuselage skins are of carbon fibre which performs no structural function but which are attached to the airframe using a system that leaves the outer surface free of blemishes of any kind. Under the skin of the fuselage is a full chrome molybdenum steel tube airframe which has been designed to absorb all the stresses of flight and the stresses imposed by the release of the in-built ballistic parachute.

Using Finite Element Analysis, a technique usually reserved for airliners and military aircraft, all stress concentrations have been designed out of the Phantom airframe.

The Phantom's wings are of aluminium alloys with the alloy skins attached by flush rivetting. There are twice as many ribs in the Phantom's wings as are generally present in other light aircraft types.

Antennae and sensors in the Phantom really are in; they are installed inside the wingtip fairings so as to avoid any visual or airflow disturbance to the aircraft.

AVEO aircraft are equipped with the AVEO DigitalFlightDeck (DFD). The DFD is a range of instruments using daylight viewable LCD screens for presentation of all performance and operational information. AVEO aircraft do not use electro-mechanical instruments at all.

Amongst the highly desirable qualities of the DFD are these-
- They are very light and have a depth of no more than about 36mm.
- Their operation is amazingly simple.
- They share data amongst themselves as may be required by the systems or set by the pilot.

DFD instruments encompass the range of functions included in electro-mechanical instruments but they also provide functions that are unthought-of in other systems but which are also very, very useful indeed. All DFD instruments will be available for installation of other aircraft types too.

The Aveo SmartYoke provides control of aircraft systems from the yoke itself. The SmartYoke has an LCD touchscreen mounted on it and which incorporates six "soft" buttons. Button 1 sets all radio and navigation systems (including GPS) to your home aerodrome with a single touch. Button 2 pops up a list of your TOP TEN GPS waypoints for DIRECT TO Navigation. The NEAREST airport waypoint is also displayed giving the pilot the closest runway for any expedited landings. Button 3 shows a list of lights (landing, strobe, courtesy, taxi, map) and you can then select which you want on or off. Button 4 pops up a list of mobile phone numbers; just select the person you want and call that person from your aeroplane. Button 5 pops up a brightness control which allows the pilot to adjust the brightness of all DFD screens at once. Button 6 pops up a list of checklists from which to select. All checklists are customisable and you can include emergency checklists too.

Pilots who prefer a "joystick" type control can opt for the AveoSmartStick which provides the buttons present on the SmartYoke on a ring, perhaps somewhat reminiscent of the Spitfire joystick of WWII. The buttons are arranged around the circumference of the ring in the 12 O'Clock to 3 O'Clock quadrant.