The Royal Aero club of Great Britain in 1924 organised a competition amongst the designers of the time to build a light aircraft suitable for weekend pilots.

The Harbin Y-12 was a development of the piston engined C-11 built in some numbers by the State Aircraft Factory of the Chinese People’s Republic at Shenyang.

During the early 1960s the RAF issued a requirement for a medium tactical freighter, and the Avro design team developed a variant of the Avro 748 (later Hawker Siddeley 748 series 2).

Lawrence Hargrave (1850 - 1915) has been described as an engineer, explorer, astronomer and aeronautical pioneer.

Known for a short time as the ‘Jet Dragon’, the DH-125 later became known as the HS-125 when the merger of several British aircraft companies occurred.

Harley Newman was an avid gyrocopter operator for many years and developed a series of single-seat machines for sporting purposes.

Intended as a replacement for the Douglas DC-3, and a direct competitor to the Fokker Friendship for civil and military use, the HS-748 was designed by A V Roe and Co (later part of the Hawker Siddeley Group) as a 36-seat commercial airliner.