Pterodactyl in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft for the sports aircraft market and these included the Ptraveller, the Pfledge and the Ascender II.
As noted elsewhere, the M-18 Dromader is a fire-fighting and agricultural aeroplane designed to operate under night and day VFR conditions and built to comply with FAR Pt 23, and AMDT.16 built by Polskie Zaktady Lotnicze in Mielec in Poland.
The Cresco was a logical development of the Fletcher FU-24 agricultural aircraft, which was produced in large numbers for many years, firstly in the USA, and later in New Zealand from 1955
The CT-4F is a variant of the CT-4E series produced by Pacific Aerospace and Raytheon Australia, a prototype (VH-XFR) being built and shown at the Australian International Air Show at Avalon, VIC in 2007, this model being aimed at meeting a requirement of the Australian Department of Defence for a
The TWA-4 was a three-seat light cabin monoplane which in general appearance looked much like the Percival Gull series designed by Edgar Percival in the United Kingdom.
The Knight Twister is a single-seat, single-engine, aerobatic sport biplane designed in 1928, built and first flown in 1932 by Vernon W Payne, and since then it has been marketed in plan form for home constructors.
The PL-9 was designed by Ladislao Pazmany and is one of a number of designs produced by him over the years to meet the requirements of the light sport aircraft market.
Under a supplemental type certificate, Pen Turbo Aviation of Cape May Airport, New Jersey early in the 21st century undertook a re-engineering of the DHC-4A Caribou as a result of market demand for a turbine-powered variant of the Caribou.
At the end of World War II Percival Aircraft Ltd produced a five-seat commercial aircraft known as the P.48 Merganser, which was of all-metal, stressed skin construction with fabric covered control surfaces.
The PAC 750XL was designed and produced by Pacific Aerospace Corp at Hamilton, New Zealand, the company having since 1966 produced over 600 aircraft. The 750XL was designed to meet the utility market where the parachuting industry, and other operators, would benefit from the aircrafts performance and low operating costs
The TWA-3 was designed and built for submission to the Australian Government to meet a requirement of the RAAF for a training aircraft to meet the Australian commitment for pilots at the beginning of World War II.
The Jeanie Teenie was designed by Calvin Parker of Coolidge, Arizona and was his first design and was known as the JT-1 and was first shown to the public in 1967, its initial development taking place in Alabama.
The Bush Boar STOL 19-8472 was a one-off two-seat light sport aircraft designed and built by Robert Pavan. It commenced life as a Calair CA-21 Skyfox and was registered 55-0608 on 5 November 1990.
The PL-4A was designed by Ladislao Pazmany as an easy-to-build, low-cost, aircraft for amateur builders, and the prototype was flown for the first time on 12 July 1972.
The Airjeep (in some references referred to as the Air Sedan and PL-13) was designed by well known Australian aircraft designer, Luigi Pellarini, designer of the Fawcett 120, Transavia PL-12, Victa R-2, Kingsford Smith PL-7 Tanker and a number of other projects, including what was to be the PL-9, a
The Percival Proctor I was basically a Vega Gull altered to meet a specification by the British Air Ministry for a communications aircraft suitable to meet the requirements of the Royal Air Force, this being achieved by the reduction of seating capacity from four to three, and redesigning the cabin
The Percival Q.6 was designed by Edgar Percival in about 1937 as a twin-engine monoplane with accommodation for four passengers in executive comfort and a crew of two powered by two Gipsy Six engines.
Mr Duan Phillips, a retired aeronautical engineer, who previously designed the Phillips Phillicopter helicopter, has designed what has been described as a flying saucer, mis-identified as a home-built hovercraft, but which is described by the designer as a lift actuator disc.
The Avanti is of unusual design and is a mid-wing, three flying-surface aircraft designed to provide minimal drag and fuel consumption at the speed of a jet aircraft, keeping the main spar and engines behind the cabin to reduce noise and with a roomy cabin with good internal space and
The Sky Scout was designed by Bernard Pietenpol in the 1920s and was intended for home construction by the amateur builder using readily available materials, ie wood and fabric, and using a 15-kw (20-hp) Ford Model T or 30-kw (40-hp) Model A engine as a power plant
In 1989 the Swiss Pilatus concern announced it was developing a pressurised fast utility transport powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6A turboprop as a competitor for the Cessna 208 Caravan I, and the Beech King Air 200.
Designed by the Pilatus Aircraft Works Ltd of Stans, Switzerland, the Turbo Porter was the culmination of a series of aircraft developed for utility use.
The first Cub was the E-2, designed by the brothers C G and Gordon Taylor, and it was powered by the Brownbach Kitten engine, eventually replaced by the Continental Motors A-40 of 28-kw (37-hp).
The PA-16 was a development of the PA-15 Vagabond, being a stretched and refined variant to seat four, having an extra fuel tank, and other refinements. Production only proceeded for one year and some 736 were completed.
Designed as a single-engine, high-performance executive aircraft, the Comanche was developed and sold in large numbers throughout the world and, when production concluded in the 1980s when floods destroyed the production line at Lock Haven, some 4,856 examples had been completed, comprising 1,143 Model 180, 2,537 Model 250, 1,028 Model
Following on from the PA-24 Comanche series, the Cherokee, like the Cessna 150, 172 and 182 series was designed to meet the requirements of training organisations and private owners for a cheap, economical and practical aircraft for private use.
In 1972 Piper added the PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain to its range. The overall length had been increased by 0.61-m (2-ft), thus allowing for a 20-percent increase in overall cabin volume to provide accommodation for up to nine passengers plus the pilot in a commuter/charter aircraft role.
O & N Aircraft Modifications of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, has in recent years been involved in the conversion of aircraft to turbine power, and one of these has been the Silver Eagle, a conversion of the Cessna 210 series.
The Baby Lakes was a scaled-down version of the very popular Great Lakes Sports Trainer designed by Barney Oldfield in Cleveland, Ohio, for the amateur builder.
The One Aircraft is a 2 + 1 light sporting aircraft produced in Slovenia, the company One being set up in 2014 to “design the ultimate, safe, affordable, attractive and top performance sport-family aircraft with 2 + 1 seating configuration that would fit in existing LSA and CS LSA (2-seat
The Ornithopter is described in the Collins English Dictionary as “a heavier-than-air aircraft sustained in and propelled through the air by flapping wings.”
Following the introduction in the United Sates of US FAR 103 regulations for Ultralight Vehicles, a number of companies produced ultra-light aircraft to the market which complied with these regulations, one of these being the Pitbull gyrocopter.
The Northrop Delta 1-D was produced in 1935 as an eight passenger derivative of the Northrop Gamma 2-D of 1933. The Delta was an advanced airliner for its time and used the same wing and undercarriage as the Gamma but was fitted with a larger fuselage to accommodate the passengers.
The MQ-4C is a development of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk and is an unmanned aerial vehicle developed for the United States Navy as a surveillance aircraft and has been developed under the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program.
In the early 1930s Northrop Corp, which at this time was operating from a facility at Mines Field at Los Angeles Municipal Airport, designed and built the single-engine Delta, which was an enlarged Alpha. However, at the same time the new Company built two Model 2 Gammas, being single or