Over the years Australian Aircraft Kits of Taree, NSW has carried out a lot of research and development work relating to slow speed flying of fixed wing aircraft, particularly light aircraft designed to operate from short airstrips on private properties.

The Stingray was a mid-wing fully cantilevered light sporting aircraft with a pylon mounted pusher engine designed by Mr Raymond Tolhurst and built in some numbers at the Camden facility of Composite Engineering in the 1980s.