In about 1930 in Western Australia Mr E (Ted) Galway, who described himself as a Canadian, designed and built a biplane with wings which could be pivoted on a spanwise line to permit the incidence to the wing to be varied in flight with the additional and important characteristic that
One of a new series of high-performance light aircraft marketed by General Avia Co Struzioni Aeronautiche SRL in Italy, the F-22 series was designed by Stelio Frati, a freelance designer who has designed many well known aircraft including the F-8 Falco, Siai Marchetti SF-260 etc.
This machine was built by David Gash of Balaclava, VIC commencing in the 1920s using wings designed to represent the wings of a bird. Construction commenced in about 1929 after he obtained the wreck of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny which had crashed at Essendon.
The Gere Biplane was designed by George Gere junior, a 19 year old student at the University of Minnesota, in 1932 as a cheap easy to build light aircraft.
Yves Gardan, the designer of the Horizon series of light monoplanes, was well known in France as the designer of the CAB Minicab, Supercab, and other aircraft.
Designed by Boris Chernov, the Korvet (Corvette) was a light sporting three-seat amphibian designed and built in Russia and is one of a series of light amphibians and flying boats produced by this Company.
The Sparrowhawk is a two-seat gyrocopter designed and developed by Groen Brothers Aviation and built, initially, and marketed by a subsidiary of that company, American Autogyro at a facility in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The GA-8 Airvan is a new entrant into the manufacture of light aircraft in Australia, and is the first commercial utility type aircraft put into production since the GAF Nomad.
In about May of 1970 it was announced to the press that negotiations had been in progress for sometime in relation to the possibility that the American-designed 36-40 seat GAC-100 feeder liner, powered by United Aircraft of Canada PT-6 turboprop engines, would be almost entirely built and assembled in Australia
As noted in the Genairco article, General Aircraft was taken over by Tugan Aircraft. A special seaplane variant was built for Rabaul Airways and became VH-URH (c/n 1 or TA-1).
The General Aircraft Company Ltd was formed in the late 1920s at Mascot, NSW, for the purpose of manufacturing a range of light aircraft of Australian design.
In March 1948, following a series of meetings between members of the British Ministry of Supply and the Australian Department of Supply and Development, specification No E.7/48 was issued to cover the design and manufacture of a small high-speed pilotless target aircraft for use in the guided weapon development program.
The ST.4 was aimed at the market for a light transport feeder liner and for operation by private owners, being a twin-engine light low-wing monoplane with Pobjoy radial engines.
During the 1960s the Government Aircraft Factories at Fishermens Bend, VIC, began designing a small utility transport intended to provide a continuing production activity after completion of the GAMD Dassault Mirage IIIO fighter programme and, to meet civil and military needs.