Designed by the company Peter Nunn & Associates Pty Ltd of Fitzroy, North Victoria, the prototype PN-2 (VH-PII - c/n P-002) is an all-metal two-seat low-wing monoplane with a bubble canopy powered by a converted Mazda 13B rotary motor-car engine.
Advance Aircraft Company, which later became the Waco Aircraft Company, is well known for building light passenger aircraft in the 1920s and a number of examples of the series have operated in this part of the World.
This aircraft was designed as a three-man-powered aircraft following the announcement of a competition by Henry Kremer, a British Industrialist, for interested builders to design, construct, and fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-of-eight course covering a distance of 1.6-km (1-mile), the course to include a 3.048-m (10-ft) pole that
The prototype of the Soviet designed Yakovlev 18 series was flown for the first time in 1945 and, after entering production in 1947, saw extensive service with the Soviet Airforce, and the airforces of Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Poland, East Germany, Egypt and Hungary.
The National NA-75 was a conversion of the Boeing PT-17 Stearman two-seat training biplane, of which many became available after World War II from the US services, and a number of schemes were put in place to convert them for agricultural use.
Following the success of the Lancair 235 series, the manufacturer introduced a larger fuselage, increased flap effectiveness and a lengthened undercarriage with an oleo-pneumatic nose strut.
The Lancair 360 is a development of the earlier 200, 235 and 320 series and has optional wingtip extensions that increase wingspan from 7.16 m (23 ft 5 in) to 8.3 m (27 ft 2 in).
One of the new breed of modern light high-performance kitplane homebuilts, the Lancair series has been developed over the years ito a number of models, the Lancair IV being released to amateur constructors in 1990. In 1991 a Lancair IV set a world speed record from San Francisco to Denver,
The Cougar I was designed by Robert Nesmith in 1957 and is similar in configuration to the Wittman Tailwind, the designer being of the view the latter type could ‘stand a little improvement”.
In recent years Nextant Aerospace of Cleveland, Ohio, has been re-manufacturing Beech 400 business jets. The company was founded in 2007 and was the first company to introduce the concept of re-manufacturing business jets.
The Nexus Mustang was designed by Richard Eaves of London, Ontario, Canada, who commenced building homebuilt aircraft in 1962. After building a Corben Baby Ace and a Bushby Mustang, and visiting an EAA event at Oshkosh, he decided to build an aircraft of his own design which suited his requirements.
The NH-90 has been developed by NH Industries, a consortium set up by France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands, comprising Eurocopter, Agusta Westland and Stork Fokker Aerospace, to produce a medium sized utility helicopter for the armies and navies of those countries. The design was initiated by Britain, France, Italy
The Menestrel family of light sporting aircraft was designed by Henry Nicollier in France as a low-wing, single-engine, light aircraft for amateur construction. This family of aircraft included both single-seat and two-seat variants.
The Pilatus is a high-wing two-seat in tandem light sporting aircraft with a tailwheel undercarriage designed and partially built by David Nightingale in Sydney, work commencing in about 2009 but was not finished.
The Kallithea is a high-performance sporting gyrocopter produced by Niki Rotor Aviation at Pravets in Bulgaria, the company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of autogyros and makes them available to interested parties in kit form for construction by amateur builders. It has developed and marketed a number of
The Opal was a light sporting aircraft designed by Ross Nolan, an aircraft engineer and designer and was described by him to the Press by means of the Melbourne Age in 1982 as ‘the plane of the future”.
The Norseman was developed by Noorduyn Aviation Ltd Ltd, this company being founded by Robert Bernard Cornelius Noorduyn in 1938 after his former company, Noorduyn Aircraft Ltd, was re-organised.
The Nord 1002 Pingouin devolved from the Messerschmitt Bf 108 (which see). Following the invasion of France, a decision was made by the German RLM (State Ministry of Aviation) to transfer production to the SNCA de Nord facility at Les Mureaux to free up production facilities in Germany for fighter
The Nord 3202 was manufactured by SNCA du Nord in France as a two-seat primary trainer for use as standard equipment at schools of the Aviation Legere de l’Armee (ALAT), replacing the Stampe SV-4 biplane.
The North American NA-64 was a low-wing monoplane fitted with a Wright radial engine aimed at the advanced trainer market and was ordered for the French Armee de l’Air and the French Aeronavale, eventually seeing extensive service with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the German Luftwaffe, the latter using
The SR2500 Super Rebel was produced as a kit aircraft in Canada by Murphy Aircraft of British Colombia and kits were sold for a few years but production concluded in 2008.
The Yukon was designed with versatility as a utility transport to the fore. It can be fitted with either of two Lycoming engines, the O-360 or the O-390.
The Murrayair MA-1 was a redesign and reconstruction of the Boeing Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane trainer as a two-seat crop-dusting aircraft performed under contract to Murrayair Ltd of Hawaii by engineers at Air New Zealand, some 9,000 examples of the Stearman having been built as trainers during world War
The MX-2 is a fairly new design aimed at the unlimited aerobatic market, being designed in the United States by Chris Meyer for MXR Technologies Inc of Boynton Beach, Florida, and built by Composite Universal.
In order to meet the requirements of pilots in the Red Bull Races, which are held at various centres around the world each year, including on occasion in Perth, Western Australia, MX Technologies developed a single-seat light-weight variant in 2007 for English pilot Nigel Lamb to be entered in the
The Monocoupe was originally designed by Don Luscombe but evolved through a number of models by the efforts of Luscombe and Clayton Folkerts and was built in large numbers from 1928 to the later 1950s with a variety of engines.
When first released to the market the Acclaim was described as the fastest, most powerful Mooney ever produced and as the flagship of the Mooney fleet, being able to “climb quicker and provide more pulse-sounding performance” than any other aircraft in its class
After World War II Mooney Aircraft Corp was formed by two executives of what had been the Culver Aircraft Corp, and A W Mooney, who had commenced designing light aircraft in the 1920’s, designing the M-10 Mite, of which some 300 were built, initially at Wichita, Kansas, and later at
The prototype of the Mooney M-20 series was flown for the first time on 10 August 1953, and since then the type has been in continuous production in a variety of models.
The M-22 Mustang was the first attempt by the Company to produce a single-engine pressurised aircraft and was the ultimate development of the Mooney 20 series of high-performance aircraft.
During World War II, to permit German plants to be used for the production of fighters and bombers, the German RLM decided to transfer production of lesser important aircraft to other countries, the types involved including the Fieseler Storch.
Flown for the first time on 10 June 1959, the MS-880 Rallye was a fully aerobatic, all metal, cabin monoplane possessing an extremely simple but rugged construction.
The Cheyenne is the 10th design produced by Gary Morgan of Morgan Aeroworks of Taree, NSW and is a two-seat self-launched glider which can be used as a light sporting aircraft.
The Cougar is a four-seat development of the Cheetah designed and developed by Morgan AeroWorks of Taree, NSW, formerly Miranda Aircraft, the prototype (19-7298) flying for the first time in late 2009.