The 620A is an agricultural aircraft produced by the Weatherly Aviation Co of Lincoln, California, and is one in a series of aircraft produced in small volume by the company for this role.
The Watson Windwagon light aircraft were developed from the Parker Teenie Two series which was designed by Calvin Parker and built in some numbers around the world.
The Tomcat was an ultra-light design of canard configuration designed and produced in the United Kingdom by Waspair and later produced in the United States by Midwest Microlites.
War Aircraft Replicas of Tampa, Florida, was formed to design and market plans and kits of half-scale (50%) replicas of famous aircraft of World War II and since 1974 a number of designs have been made available to the amateur builder, types including the Sea Fury, A6M5 Zero, F4U Corsair,
The brothers Leo Austin and Vivian Claude Walsh were interested in the aeroplane from about 1910 and at that time purchased materials and built an aircraft which was completed and flown in 1911 but the aircraft was destroyed in an accident.
The Wag-A-Bond Traveller is a replica of the Piper PA-15 Vagabond series but much improved, with extra strength, comfort and performance, using modern construction methods and materials, and in recent years has been made available to amateur constructors in kit form by the manufacturers, Wag-Aero Group of Lyons, Wisconsin, USA.
The Wag Aero Cuby is a redesign of the well known Piper Cub by the Wag-Aero group of Lyons, Wisconsin, using modern construction methods and materials, being aimed at the home-built market.
The Waco 10 was launched in 1927 and certificated (ATC-13) in October that year. It was much improved on the Model 9, and was similar in layout and dimensions.
The 2-T-1 light sports trainer biplane was introduced to the aviation market in 1929 by the Great Lakes Aircraft Corp of Cleveland Ohio, the prototype flying during that year.
The Widgeon II was a re-design of the Widgeon I, being described as benefiting from the experience gained in the construction and operation of the earlier aeroplane.
The Widgeon I was a single-engine amphibious biplane constructed with a wooden hull (Queensland maple) designed by Sqdn Ldr L J Wackett in 1923 and built by the RAAF Experimental Section at Randwick.
The Warbler was a parasol wing monoplane with internal bracing designed by Sqdn Ldr L J R Wackett, an officer in the RAAF at the time in charge of the Government Experimental Aeroplane Factory in Sydney.
The WAACO Staggerbipe was first produced in the early 1980s by the West Australian Aircraft Company of Box Hill, VIC as a single-seat light sporting biplane and was made available in kit form for the amateur constructor.
In 1940, in response to a US Army requirement for a two-seat unarmed light observation aircraft, Stinson produced the Model 74 and three examples were produced as the YO-49 and evaluated against the Bellanca YO-50 and the Ryan YO-51.
In 1938 the US Army tested a private venture training aircraft built by the Vultee Corporation and known as the V-54. The prototype (NX21753) first flew in June that year with a 336-kw (450-hp) Wright Whirlwind engine.
The prototype of this new generation of touring and training aircraft was flown by Paul Southwick, an AOPA test pilot, at the company’s facility in Naples, this aircraft being registered I-PDVA.
The A-Viator is a development of the Partenavia P-68 series, the production of which was acquired by Vulcanair SPA which carries out its operations from Casoriain in Italy.
The Philicopter did not represent the first venture into the production of a commercial helicopter by an Australian company but it, like the Wikopter and the Moser, built in the 1960s, was one of the first. However none in fact have entered production.
The Vought UO-1 was designed as a two-seat observation biplane for operation from ships of the United States Navy fleet and to be fitted with a single centre float and outrigger floats, to be catapulted off the ships and make unarmed reconnaissance, returning to the ship and landing on the
The Sportsman two-seat amphibian was designed by Mr Volmer Jensen, and marketed by Volmer Aircraft of Burbank, California, and the prototype was flown for the first time on 22 December 1958.
The VM-1 Esqual is a two-seat monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage high-performance light aircraft produced by Vol Mediterrani in a facility at Moia near Barcelona in Spain.
The brothers Charles (1882 - 1912) and Gabriel Voisin (1880 - 1973) in France in the 19th Century began building and experimenting with kites, incorporating modified Lawrence Hargrave type box-kite structures and in 1905, in association with Ernest Archdeacon and Louis Bleriot, built gliders.
The Viva Scout Mk 1 was a single-seat ultralight aircraft of two-axis configuration (pitch and yaw) powered by a Pixie Major engine driving a wooden propeller through a single chain.
The Vision is a two-seat dual-control high-wing strut-braced monoplane suitable for training, recreation, and property work produced by Vision Aircraft at its manufacturing facility at Orange, NSW. A couple of variants are available, including the Vision 600 and the Vision 600 Mk 2.
The Skypup is one of a number of ultralight designs built and marketed by the Vintage Ultralight Assoc of Marietta, Georgia, models available including the Woodhopper, Gipsy, J-3 Junior, MW-7, Petit Breezy, SR-1 Hornet, Turnercraft and the Whing Ding 71.
Although looking very similar to the Quickie series of aircraft, also being of canard configuration, the Dragonfly is a new design, being slightly larger and having, in the two-seat version, less power.
Production of the DHC-6 series by de Havilland Canada concluded in 1988 after 844 examples were built at Toronto, production running from 1965 to 1989.
The Victa R-2 was a four-seat light monoplane designed for Victa Ltd by Mr Luigi Pellarini, designer of the Transavia Airtruk and a number of other aircraft.
The first Australian designed light aircraft to be granted type approval (on 4 July 1962), the Airtourer was a development of a design by the late Henry Millicer which won the Royal Aero Club design competition for a light aircraft.