In late 1999 Hughes Engineering of Ballina, NSW, announced it proposed to put into production a four-seat kit aircraft designed by students from the University of New South Wales Engineering School, the latter having been commissioned to design the aircraft earlier that year.

The Lightwing Speed was designed and built by the Hughes Lightwing Co at Ballina, NSW to be produced in kit form for the light aircraft market, being produced in four basic versions, the two-seater known as the SP2000-S which is a lightweight models for registration under Recreation Aircraft Australia Regulations

Construction of the prototype of the Lightwing series began in 1984 and, initially known as the GA-55, it flew for the first time in June 1986 and was built as a ‘micro-light’ to meet ANO 101-28.

The Hughes 500 series was chosen for development for the US Army in 1961 as the OH-6A, and five prototypes were ordered for evaluation in competition with the Bell OH-4A and the Hiller OH-5A.

In 1955 the aircraft division of the Hughes Tool Co designed and developed a light helicopter known as the Model 269.

The 304 MS Shark is one of a range of high performance gliders designed in Germany and built by HpH Ltd in the Czech Republic and is a single-seater of composite construction available in the 15-metre Class up to the two-seat 20-metre Open Class and was developed from the German

The brothers, Leo Austin Walsh was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1881 the family emigrating to Auckland in 1883. His brother, Vivian Claude Walsh was born in New Zealand in 1888.

The DGA-15 was the last of a series of high-performance monoplanes built by Howard Aircraft Corp at St Charles, Illinois in the United States.

The Whing Ding was designed by Mr R W Hovey as an ultra-light aircraft which would require minimal construction time, would have STOL performance, and capable of easy dis-assembly for transportation and storage.

The Delta Hawk is a light single-seat sporting biplane which was available in the 1980’s in kit form in the United States, being designed by Mr R W Hovey of California.

The Delta Bird is one of a series of ultralight aircraft designed by Robert Hovey in 1982. It is a single-seat single-engine biplane with conventional three-axis control.

The Typhoon was designed by the late William ‘Bill’ Andiel and marketed by Homebuilt Aviation in northern New South Wales.

The Dimona is a powered glider built by Walf Hoffman Flugzeugbau KG at Ulm in Germany and at Weiner Newstadt in Austria, the prototype of which flew for the first time on 9 October 1980, and more than 300 examples have been delivered.

The DV-20 Katana is a two-seat training and touring aircraft produced by HOAC Austria Flugzeugwerk at Weiner Neustadt, being basically a development of the Dimona and Super Dimona motor gliders.

The Ibis was a foray into the design and construction of a light aircraft by one of Australias most famous aviators, Herbert (Bert) John Louis Hinkler.

The HT-2 was designed by Dr V M Ghatge, Chief Designers of Hindustan Aircraft Ltd at Bangalore, India.

The Krishak was manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd of Bangalore as the HAOP-27 air-observation post and liaison monoplane for the Indian Air Force to replace the Auster AOP-9.

The Praga E.114 was designed by Jaroslav Slechta in Czechoslovakia and initially built by CKD Praga, where it became known as the Air Baby.

Stanley Hill Jr designed the Model 360 helicopter and offered it for commercial sale in 1948. Subsequently the designation Hiller 360 was dropped in favour of UH-12, and later models were known simply as the 12C, 12E, etc.

During the 1930s Mr Percy Hick of Ballingal, near Griffith, NSW, with the assistance of his two brothers Stanley and Allan, built two aircraft.

In New Zealand Volker Heydecke built an all-composite 66-percent scale replica of a Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 fighter and it was fitted with a 112-kw (150-hp) Rotec R3600 radial engine with a 3:2 gearing.

The Hevle Classic is two-seat development of the Bowers or EAA Fly Baby which was designed as a simple, easy to fly, low-coast light aircraft for the amateur builder.

The Heston Phoenix was built by the Heston Aircraft Co Ltd at Heston, the company rising out of the demise in 1934 of the Comper Aircraft Co Ltd.

The Yokosuka E14Y was designed by Mitsuo Yamada of the Dai-Ichi Kaigun Koku Gijitsusho (the First Naval Air Technical Arsenal) as a small submarine-borne two-seat reconnaissance seaplane to operate on twin floats.

In 1938 the Japanese Navy acquired from Germany an example of the Heinkel He 118 (4th prototype) and licence production rights.

The Yakovlev Yak-11 (known to NATO as Moose) began to enter service with the Soviet Airforce in 1947 and bore some resemblance to the designer, Aleksandr Yakovlevs, wartime fighter designs, the wing, tail assembly, and undercarriage being similar to those of the Yak-9 single-seat fighter.

The Yakovlev series of fighters gained the distinction during World War II as being the Workhorses on the Eastern Front and, although the type entered service at the beginning of the War, it continued in service long after hostilities concluded, and saw service with a number of airforces, including the

The Yak-3U was a completely new design produced by the Yakovlev Design Bureau and used the light alloy stressed skin metal wing and tail surfaces of the latterly built Yak-3 fitted with the M-107 in-line V-12 engine but was built with a completely new fuselage fitted with a 14-cylinder two-row

The Yak 3 is one of a range of important Soviet aircraft emanating from the Design Bureau of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev, the design of the Yak 3 commencing in 1941 based around the new VK-107 VEE-twelve engine, design parameters including least possible drag, smallest dimensions, and weight consistent with a

The Westland Wessex was a British development of the Sikorsky S-58, with a turboshaft engine replacing the original piston-engine radial.

In 1927 specification 26/27 was issued for a general purpose military aeroplane to be used for light bombing sorties, artillery observation patrols, reconnaissance and photographic work for the RAF and later target towing, and to meet this requirement the Wapiti was designed and built by the Westland Aircraft Works.

Production of the Scout/Wasp series of light helicopters was commenced in 1957 as a private venture by the Saunders-Roe Company.

In 1934 under the direction of W E W Petter, to meet specifications 39/34, a design team at Westland produced the Lysander, the prototype of which (K6127) was flown on 15 June 1936 with a 627 kw (840-hp) Bristol Mercury IX engine in the hands of Harrold Penrose.

The Warrigal II (Warrigal being aboriginal for untamed) was a development of the Warrigal I, and was also built at Randwick.

In the late 1920s L J Wackett (later Sir) decided to design two aircraft for the RAAF, one to have a 149 kw (200-hp) radial engine, and the other to be a two-seat fighter with a 328 kw (440-hp) engine, to be known as the Warrigal I and Warrigal II.

The Vultee V-72 Vengeance was designed specifically for use as a dive-bomber in close support of army operations, and was purchased in large numbers for the RAF.

The VE-7H was a general reconnaissance and communications aircraft designed for the US military by Lewis & Vought of Long Island, New York.

The Kingfisher was designed in 1957 by Rex Beisel of the Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp as a two-seat scout and observation aircraft for the US Navy, with the capability of being launched from catapults on board battleships, cruisers, and a number of destroyers.

The Wellington was one of the most important bombers of World War II, to such an extent that more than twice the number of Wellingtons were built as the Avro Lancaster.

The Vickers Type 287 Wellesley long-range bomber was built by Vickers at Weybridge from January 1937, having been designed by the company’s Chief Structural Designer, Barnes Wallis, who later designed the Wellington bomber using a similar revolutionary light-weight geodetic framework. The first production Wellesley flew on 30 January 1937 and