This light single-engine open-cockpit monoplane commenced life as a Taylor Monoplane. It was completed by Mr Bernard Webb and was registered for the first time on 26 August 1997.
The Jackaroo was a high-wing ultralight designed in the early 1980s for the Australian market. It had a pod fuselage, a tricycle undercarriage and a tractor mounted modified 1200-cc Volkswagen engine.
This gyrocopter (registered G-395) was a freelance design fitted with a Subaru EJ-25 four-cylinder engine of 119-kw (160-hp) and fitted with 8.53 m (28-ft) diameter Patroni Glasrotor blades and a 1.93 m (76-inch) Ivo propeller.
The Windlass Trike, a powered hang-glider with a tricycle undercarriage, and a fibreglass fuselage to take one or two persons, has been built in some numbers around the world in a variety of models.
Department records indicate that in the 1920s a Mr James Winstone of Collingwood, Vic, built an aircraft and sought information about having it registered.
One of many ultralight aircraft designs of Colin Winton and his son Scott and this was the second in a line of aircraft aimed at the market and followed the Grasshopper.
The Solitaire is one of a number of aircraft designed by Colin Winton and produced by Winton Aircraft of Coomera, Qld for the ultra-light market, production of aircraft by the Company commencing in about 1976.
The Swing Wing was designed by Colin Winton to meet Regulation 95-10. It is a three-axis ultra-light aircraft seating the pilot in a single-seat and is a high-wing monoplane fitted with a Rotax 277 engine in a pusher configuration.
A Mr Woolfrey commenced construction of an aircraft in the Wollongong area, the aircraft being of timber construction with fabric covering. It is not thought to have flown.
In 1910 Herbert Woodward of Waterloo, NSW, with his son Percival, built an aircraft similar in appearance to a Bleriot but with features similar to those found on the French aircraft types such as the Antoinette and the Pellier.
The Wright Mite was designed and built by Mr Dudley Wright and his brother in Queensland between 1931 and 1936. It made its first flight in 1937 and was occasionally flown in the Archerfield area.
Two of these gyrocopters are known to have built and registered to the owner Andrew Carruthers at Wetherill Park, NSW, becoming VH-YPX (c/n Y4P 100008) and VH-YPZ (c/n Y4P 100009) on 4 August 2015.
This was a small single-seat gyrocopter imported to Australia in the 1960s from South Africa, an example of which was noted at a fly-in at Camden in the 1960s.
The M-2 Skywave is one of a new series of carbon fibre two-seat light sport aircraft introduced to the market in the 21st Century and is similar in appearance to the Icon M-5 from the United States and the Vickers Wave produced at New Plymouth in New Zealand.
The White Der Jager is a single-seat light amateur-built biplane designed and market by White Aircraft, being designed by Marshall White, and is a development of the Stolp SA-500 Starlet, the intention being to make the aircraft similar in appearance to a World War I biplane.
In the 1980s VTOL Industries Australia Ltd of St George’s Terrace, Perth, WA devised, through its managing direct, Kim V Sadleir, a new approach to VTOL technology and much testing with two test rigs was carried out in an advance research and development stage.
The Sling TSi first flew in 2018 and is produced by The Airplane Factory in South Africa and is a four-seat cabin monoplane fitted with a tricycle undercarriage developed from the company’s previous offering, the Sling 4.
Known as a thermal airship, the design of the balloon in this case is similar to the Thunder & Colt AS-105 and produced buoyancy by heating air in a large envelope, the density of the internal hot-air as compared to the cool ambient temperature outside air causing an upward force
For years the four-seat, single-engine fixed-pitch propeller aircraft market was dominated by Cessna and Piper but in later years new designs have been placed on the market and one of these designs has come from Italian manufacturer, Tecnam.
Following the success of the Sling 2 the company moved to the construction of a four-seat variant using similar production methods, offering the aircraft in ready-to-fly form or as a kit-built aircraft.
The PZL 101 Gawron is a single engine rugged utility aircraft which was built in some numbers in Poland for the Eastern Europe market, being produced by WSK-Okecie, this company later becoming known as PZL Warszawa-Okecia and is a development of the Soviet-built Yakovlev Yak 12M.
Following the production of almost 17,000 Cessna 182 Skylanes, Cessna in 1977 decided to build a model of the well proven design with a retractable undercarriage, thus providing an aircraft with the proven reliability of its predecessor with the increased speed and fuel efficiency of a retractable undercarriage.
In 1980 the Cessna 425 Corsair was introduced to the Cessna range. Based on the airframe of the Model 421 Golden Eagle, the Corsair was fitted with Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprops.
On 8 September 2006 the Cessna Aircraft Company was granted a type certificate for the Citation Mustang, the Model 510, making it the world’s first fully-certified, new-generation entry level business jet.
The SeaBear was designed by G Annenkov and a team of graduates from the Samara State Aerospace University in Russia and more than 30 examples have been delivered.
In late 1957 the Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) announced that at its instigation preliminary design work had begun
on a four-seat fully-aerobatic monoplane known as the PL-9, and that it was to be constructed at the Aero Clubs workshops at
Archerfield, Qld.
The Saratoga was introduced to the Piper range in 1980 and was the culmination of years of development of the PA-32 series through from the PA-32-260 Cherokee Six, which first appeared in 1965 and was in production for 14 years before being replaced by the PA-32R-300 Lance, which was a
At the conclusion of fighting in the Spanish Civil War in April 1939 the Nationalist air arm possessed some 40 Messerschmitt Bf 109Bs and a number of Bf 109Es.
Known affectionately as Flying Tadpole, and the flying suitcase, the Hampden was one of the mainstays of RAF Bomber Command in the early years of World War II.
The P-84 Jet Provost was developed as a private venture utilising a considerable proportion of the structure of the piston-engine P-56 Provost, which was then in service with the RAF as a basic trainer.
The Ultra Cruiser was designed by Maurice Hummel and is produced by Hummel Aviation for the ultralight and sporting aircraft market and is available in kit form or as plans only form but may also be obtained as a read-to-fly aircraft.
The Hummelbird was designed by Maurice ‘Morry’ Hummel, and is marketed by Hummel Aviation of Bryan, Ohio, in kit form as a light single-engine single-seat low-cost fast-build, high-performance aircraft.
The P R Breeze is a single-seat variant of the PR-582 Pocket Rocket using the basic Lightwing fuselage, but fitting it with a single parasol configuration wing and installing a range of Rotax engines, including the Models 582, 503 or 618 two strokes, or the Rotax 912 four-stroke.