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.
In about 1930 the Monospar Wing Co Ltd was set up to build a new design of wing for the British Air Ministry, the new wing being fitted to a three-seat low-wing monoplane named the Monospar ST-3.
In January 1976 the N-24 variants of the Nomad, with a 61-cm (24-in) increased length in the nose, and a 1.14-m (45-in) increase in cabin length, flew for the first time.
Following the success of the earlier models General Aircraft produced the ST.12. This was a progressive development of the earlier models and was introduced to the market in 1935, being described as a four-seat general purpose monoplane.
In March 1948, following a series of meetings between members of the British Ministry of Supply and the Australian Department of Supply and Development, a specification was issued to cover the design and manufacture of a small high-speed pilotless aircraft for use in the guided weapon development program.
General Aircraft in 1934 appointed D L Hollis Williams as chief engineer and in that year the Company moved to Hanworth where he commenced design of the ST-18, a ten-seat, twin-engine, low-wing airliner with a cruising speed of 306 km/h (190 mph) and a range in excess of 966
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.