The Fox Brothers of St Kilda, Vic over a period of 18 months built a small biplane. This machine was flown by N Chapman on 7 May 1932 from the Dudley Street Airport (later Coode Island) and attained a height of 305 m (1,000 ft) and completed two circuits of
The Mustang is a minimum aircraft and a single-seater. Examples have been constructed in this region, one becoming ZK-FIV (c/n 1113) in New Zealand in May 1984.
This was a one-off ultra-light aircraft designed and built by Rodney Flockhart. It was allotted the registration 10-3468 (c/n 1) and appeared on the RAA register from 18 December 2000 to 7 September 2005.
The Javelin was an ultralight built by Flightstar Australia Limited and a number of examples have been registered with the RAA, including 10-1303 fitted with a Rotax 447 engine registered on 5 September 1991.
David Percival Fisher was an engineer involved in early aviation experimentation in the Wellington region of New Zealand in the early 1900s, building his own design monoplane, with the help of Reginald Harry White, in 1912.
This machine is basically a two-seat development of the Sadler Vampire. The aircraft was initially developed by the designers of the Vampire but was never completed when the original Australian production line closed down.
This was a single-seat, full scale replica of a Supermarine Spitfire by Mr Gerald Finch at Mareeba in Queensland. Of all metal construction, it was painted in a camouflage colour scheme and registered VH-NEY (c/n 0010708).
Messrs F A Evans and J M Chalmers in the early 1930s obtained some parts from the wreck of the Vickers Vellore which force landed at Cape Don, NT after engine trouble in May 1929.
This was a design of an aircraft directed to winning a prize of £5,000 ($10,000) offered by British philanthropist Henry Kremer for a man-powered aircraft to fly a mile (1.6 km) and achieve an altitude of 3.048 m (10 ft).
This aircraft was placed on the Australian civil aircraft register on 26 July 2017 as VH-BNF6 (c/n AES-B1) and is owned by ESE Ltd of Upper Throic Farm, Marsbury Wells in Somerset in the United Kingdom and the aircraft is operated by ESE Australia Pty Ltd of Yarralumla, ACT.
This is a light aircraft built in New Zealand in the Keri Keri area by Allan Fillery and was a conversion of a Zenair CH-701 kit with some owner/builder modifications.
In about 1916 during World War I James Hayden of Narromine, NSW built a light aircraft on his property Acton along the lines of a Bleriot XI with wing warping and powered by two converted motor-cycle engines coupled and driving a single propeller.
The Hawkeye is an ultralight aircraft designed and built by its owner as a one-off aircraft. It was designed as a scale replica of the Piper L-4 observation aircraft and when completed was painted in an overall green colour scheme and markings of a US Army Air Force aircraft in
Little is known about this aircraft but it was designed and built by the late Ole Hartmann and, fitted with a Rotax 503 engine, it became 19-3746 (c/n 1) under RAA regulations.
A Hamilton biplane was flown by Messrs Seaforth and MacKenzie out of a paddock at Martin, NZ in 1913, this being the first flight by a heavier than air machine in the Manawatu area.
Australian philanthropist, Sir Edward Hallstrom, based in Sydney, was well known, amongst other things, for the design, development, production and marketing of the Hallstrom series of refrigerators, which became a by-word for efficiency at the time.
The F-14 Tomcat for many years was one of the most potent interceptor / fighters in the armoury of the US Navy and saw combat on a number of occasions operating from aircraft carriers of the US Fleet.
Work on an 80% scale all alloy scale replica of the Grumman F-8 Bearcat was commenced in Western Australia in about 2010, the aircraft to be fitted with a new 269-kw (360-hp) Vedeneyev M-14P radial engine driving a four-blade MT propeller.
This aircraft was registered on 5 March 2013 as VH-NZG³ (c/n 2009-1). It was built by Robert Grigson of Strathfieldsaye, Vic. and is fitted with an Aero Sport Power IO-375-M1B engine driving a Whirlwind Aviation 200RV propeller.
J Thomas Grant of Dunedin, NZ designed and built and 75% scale replica of a World War I Albatros D.V fighter, build time being in the order of three and a half years.
This was an ultralight aircraft built by a number of members of the Gold Coast Ultralight Club at Tallabudgera. At least one example was registered with the RAA on 18 December 1989 as 10-1177 and this aircraft was fitted with a Zenoah G-50 engine.
This was an ultralight aircraft known as the Jenner Gippslander Mk 1 and was registered with the RAA on 28 August 1995 and was withdrawn from use on 25 May 2008.
John Harley Gill of Dunedin, NZ, designed and built an aircraft in about 1909, work commencing at about that time in the foundry of Schlaadt Bros in Cumberland Street.
This light aircraft was designed and built by Bryan Gabriel at Holbrook, NSW. It is an approximately 70-percent scale model of a North American P-51D Mustang built of all metal construction and fitted with a converted Mercury six-cylinder Vee outboard engine.
This was a one-off homebuilt gyrocopter built around the cockpit section of a Robinson R-22. The machine is fitted with a tricycle undercarriage and was fitted with a Subaru EJ25 engine driving in a pusher configuration behind the cockpit, being fitted with a three-blade Ivo 1.93 m (76-inch) propeller.
Terrence Kronk over the years, before his tragic loss in an aircraft crash, was involved in the construction of a number of scale replicas of aircraft, and these included a Spitfire Mk 26 , North American P-51 Mustang and a Fw-190A.