The Weedhopper was a high-wing ultralight aircraft fitted with an engine in the tractor configuration, a tricycle undercarriage, and with two-axis control. It was initially developed by John Chota in the late 1970s during the boom in ultralight aircraft and was introduced to the market in 1977.
The Jackaroo was one of many designs produced by the late Colin Winton and produced by Winton Aircraft in Queensland and is a single-seat high-wing open-cockpit aircraft, being first made available to pilots in about 1980.
The Jillaroo was one of a series of ultra-light aircraft designed by the late Colin Winton, others including the Brumby, Jackaroo, Sportsman and Grasshopper and they had a variety of engines including examples from the Rotax series, Hirth, Zenoah and Fuji Robin.
The Mirage was designed by Francis Riley and produced in the United States as an ultralight aircraft to meet US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicle regulations and was produced in large numbers.
The Phantom was one of a series of single-engine, single-seat ultralight aircraft designed and developed in a range of models by Phantom Aeronautics of Three Rivers, Michigan and it was made available to the amateur construction market in kit form.
Pterodactyl in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft for the sports aircraft market and these included the Ptraveller, the Pfledge and the Ascender II.
The Sabre 1K-1R was a high-wing strut-braced ultra-light aircraft with an open cockpit marketed by Pour le Merite Ultralights of Nagambie, VIC in the 1980s and was designed to meet ANO 95.10.
The Mitchell Wing U-2 was an ultralight design which was basically a flying wing with a small single-seat cockpit, a bubble canopy and a pusher engine and, designed by Donald Mitchell, was developed initially in 1980 as an experimental category motor glider.
Known as the Flying Flea, this series of aircraft was designed by Henri Mignet, the first model built in any numbers being the HM-14 (which see) and was followed by a whole range of variations.
The Skylark is an ultra-light aircraft developed by Mr Ronald Lang of Officer, VIC in the early 1980s. Mr Lang also designed and developed an engine known as the Skylark for use in his and other ultra-light aircraft.
The Jeep was a single-seat high-wing braced monoplane built to Australian standard ANO95/10 with an enclosed cockpit and a pusher engine designed and produced in small numbers by Leigh Wakeland in the 1980s
The Javelin was a single-seat ultralight sporting aircraft marketed in Australia by Flight 95 of Lindfield NSW in the mid-1980s and had a single-surface with Dacron covered high-wing, this being a strut-braced monoplane and which itself was a development of the company’s Mustang
In the early 1980s Delta Technology in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft of high-wing configuration with conventional tail surfaces on a monoplane wing, the ailerons and elevators being operated by a control stick, the rudder being operated by pedals.