Photograph: An artists impression of a Firecatcher F-45 (Pacific Aerospace) Country of origin: New Zealand / United Kingdom Description: Fire-bomber / light utility transport Power Plant: One Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-65F turboprop Specifications: Cruising speed: 350 km/h (220 mph) Range: 1852 km (1,151 miles) History: The Firecatcher F-45 is

This was a two-seat single-engine light aircraft designed by a Mr Finch at Warwick in Queensland for private use of metal and composite construction.

Nothing is known about this aircraft at this stage but it was registered as VH-XFB (c/n Freckle 1) to its owner Adam Barrow of Murrumbeena, Vic on 16 March 2017.

This was a light biplane homebuilt built in Melbourne with a pusher engine built by Keith Farmer, owner of Sopwith Gnu VH-UBY.

The Fox Brothers of St Kilda, Vic over a period of 18 months built a small biplane. This machine was flown by N Chapman on 7 May 1932 from the Dudley Street Airport (later Coode Island) and attained a height of 305 m (1,000 ft) and completed two circuits of

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The Rogal Biplane is an Australian designed ultra-light aircraft with open cockpit built to suit the purposes of the designer.

The Mustang is a minimum aircraft and a single-seater. Examples have been constructed in this region, one becoming ZK-FIV (c/n 1113) in New Zealand in May 1984.

This was a one-off ultra-light aircraft designed and built by Rodney Flockhart. It was allotted the registration 10-3468 (c/n 1) and appeared on the RAA register from 18 December 2000 to 7 September 2005.

This aircraft was an Australian designed and built amphibian which was registered with the RAA as 19-7206 (c/n A001) on 13 July 2009.

The Javelin was an ultralight built by Flightstar Australia Limited and a number of examples have been registered with the RAA, including 10-1303 fitted with a Rotax 447 engine registered on 5 September 1991.

David Percival Fisher was an engineer involved in early aviation experimentation in the Wellington region of New Zealand in the early 1900s, building his own design monoplane, with the help of Reginald Harry White, in 1912.

This machine is basically a two-seat development of the Sadler Vampire. The aircraft was initially developed by the designers of the Vampire but was never completed when the original Australian production line closed down.

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This was a one-off homebuilt gyrocopter built around the cockpit section of a Robinson R-22. The machine is fitted with a tricycle undercarriage and was fitted with a Subaru EJ25 engine driving in a pusher configuration behind the cockpit, being fitted with a three-blade Ivo 1.93 m (76-inch) propeller.

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Late in World War II the Fiat company in Italy designed the G-55 Centauro single-seat fighter powered by the Daimler Benz DB-605 12-cylinder VEE liquid-cooled engine, and this aircraft, although built in relatively small numbers, fought very successfully with the Fascist Republican Airforce.

In 1935 the Technical Office in Berlin (RLM) issued a specification for a two-three seat multi-purpose communications aircraft to exploit the latest aerodynamic high-lift devices providing short field capability.

The FW 190 was designed by Kurt Tank, technical director of the Focke Wulf Flugzeugbau, and was one of the most successful fighter aircraft of World War II, commencing life powered by a two-row BMW radial engine, final variants being powered by Junkers Jumo in-line engines.

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General Hirschauer, the Director of military aviation in France in 1915, sought that the Farman brothers, Henry and Maurice, design an aircraft to replace the MF-7 and MF-11 and they designed it around a cockpit which was ovoid in shape and was suspended between the wings and had a more

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The Felixtowe F.3 (also known as the Porte Felixtowe F.3), the prototype of which made its first official flight on 9 February 1917, was one of a series of large flying-boats built for the Royal Navy.

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