The Wasp was a single-seat light aircraft designed in 1978 by Neville White. It was an open cockpit, aircraft, with a Fuji Robin 250-cc engine, a single-cycle unit with a belt drive.
In about 1935 Keith Cameron built a small single-seat monoplane. It was of wood construction with fabric covering. It was not thought to be intended to fly and was only used for taxiing training duties.
This aircraft was designed by prolific aircraft designer in Australia, Steven Cohen, in 1983. It is an extremely simple aircraft and, other than for the tail it was all straight tube and plate.
This is an amphibian designed and built by prolific designer and builder, Steven Cohen, at Wedderburn, NSW, with work commencing in 2018 and continuing into 2019.
The Cobra was a one-off single-seat light sporting aircraft fitted with a four-cylinder engine with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and registered with the RAA on 4 April 2002.
This was an ultra-light aircraft designed, built and flown by Christopher Conroy, who later designed the Sparrow and Sparrowhawk range of light aircraft.
The Cli-Mate commenced life as a Foxcon Terrier 200 but received some major changes during its construction. It initially became ZK-EZY² (c/n NZ2006) and was registered on 21 July 2004 to the Paul Hopper and Rex Swenson Partnership.
Very little is known about this aircraft. It was placed on the RAA register on 27 January 2005 as 19-4255 (c/n CAA-001) and removed on 27 January 2006.
This was an ultralight aircraft designed and built by Mr Alan Clarke. It was powered by a Fuji Robin 250 engine and had an empty weight of 84 kg (186 lb).
Designed and built by Mr Raymond Tolhurst of Composite Aero Components of Camden, NSW, the White Pointer was one of a series of high-performance light sporting aircraft designed by this company aimed at the sport aviation fraternity.
The Kingfisher is a one off two-seat low-wing cabin monoplane designed and built by Mr Clark. This aircraft is powered by a 90-kw (120-hp) Jabiru 3300 six-cylinder engine and was first registered as 19-7104 on 24 March 2009.
The Cielo Lobo is a light sporting aircraft built by amateur builders. Work commenced on the construction of the first Australian aircraft in 2002 and it was eventually completed and registered with the RAA on 21 July 2010 as 19-7577.
The Imp is a light aircraft of all wood construction with fabric covering designed and built by Murray Cohoe at Serpentine in Western Australia. It was nearing completion late in 2007.
This aircraft was a glider imported from the United States where it had operated as N642BA (c/n 101A-0187) It was first registered in Australia as VH-BII on 5 March 2008.
This aircraft was a homebuilt Vans RV-4 quick-build kit constructed by Carl Wright of Ventura, California and was registered in the United States as N67CW.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The P-40 series of fighter aircraft commenced with the XP-40 prototype and developed through the P-40C Tomahawk, which was used by the RAAF in the Middle-East campaign, and ultimately to the Kittyhawk.
In an attempt to increase the high-altitude performance of the P-40E Kittyhawk, Curtiss undertook the redesign of the aircraft to take a British-built Rolls Royce Merlin 28 engine with a single-stage, two-speed supercharger, and this was installed in a P-40D airframe and flown for the first time as the XP-40F
n 1938 Curtiss Wright was developing a new dive bomber for the US Navy known as the SB2C (scout bomber, 2nd type, Curtiss), and it eventually became known as the Helldiver in November 1941.
Following the success of the Hawk 75A, in July 1937 Curtiss installed a liquid-cooled Allison V-1710-11 engine with a General Electric turbo-supercharger in a Model 75A, becoming the Model 75I.
The CW-21 series was designed and built by the Curtiss Wright Corporation at its St Louis Airplane Division in the 1930s, the first model in the series being the CW-19R, a two-seat general purpose training monoplane powered by a 336 kw (450-hp) Wright R-975-E3 Whirlwind engine.
A military variants of the Cessna 337, the O-2 series was built in some numbers, 501 O-2As going to the USAF for Forward Air Control duties, and some 31 O-2Bs were used in the psychological warfare role in Vietnam.
The suddenness of the Japanese onslaught at the beginning of the war in the Pacific, the speed at which Japanese forces moved, and the possibility of fighter aircraft not being available from overseas sources, led to the decision to design and build a fighter aircraft as soon as possible to
In 1950 the Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, won a competition for the design of a liaison and observation monoplane for the US military services with the Model 305A, a development of the commercial Model 170 with similar wings, tail unit, and landing gear.
The Wirraway (an aboriginal word meaning challenge) was a development of the North American NA-32 and NA-33 by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. In January 1942, eight Wirraways engaged a force of more than 100 Japanese aircraft near Rabaul.