Mr Geoffrey Williams, before his death in May 2002, designed five ultra-light (microlight aircraft in New Zealand) of his own design and built four. He was the son of a former World War II Avro Lancaster pilot and lived in the Dunedin area. His grandfather was a carpenter and Geoff

The Vans RV-3 is a single-seat sporting monoplane designed by Richard Van Grunsven in the USA in 1968.

The design for a single-seat, sporting monoplane of all-wood construction, which became known as the Rollason Beta, resulted from a competition conducted by Rollason Aircraft and Engines in the United Kingdom in 1964.

The Ultrabat was conceived by George Markey in Sydney, designed by Graham Swannell and built by Scott Winton and George Markey as a high performance sporting aircraft.

The HH-1 Hawker Hurricane was designed by Fred G Sindlinger in Washington as a ⅝-scale replica of the famous Battle of Britain fighter of World War II, being aimed at representing a scale version of the Hurricane IIc.

The Super Diamond is a single-seat light sporting aircraft produced in kit form by Miranda Investments of Riverwood, NSW, later becoming Morgan Aero Works of Taree.

The Monoswift is a single-seat high-performance sporting monoplane designed to resemble in many ways a scaled down P-51 Mustang. It was designed and built in New Zealand by Maurice Paton.

The Gnatsum (Mustang spelt backwards) is a 2/3rdscale replica of the North American P-51 Mustang

Gordon Bedson was born on 23 September 1918 in the Channel Islands and commenced employment with the Miles Aircraft Company in 1936.