Like many ultralight aircraft in recent times

The Barracuda was designed by Geoffrey Siers, a former RAF pilot and design engineer with British Aerospace, who moved to the United States in 1964.

In 1907 L J R (Leslie John Robert) Jones was born on 4 June 1886 at Bathurst

The VL-3 Evolution was marketed by Jean-Marie and Jean-Baptiste Guisset who operated a training organisation in Belgium, they taking over the operation of the airfield in 1980.

Leslie John Robert Jones, in conjunction with Dr N P Boulton, in 1927 commenced the design and construction, and later testing

The Societe des Avions Jodel, formed in 1946, designed and built the single-seat Model D-9 Bebe light monoplane as a cheap, easy-to-build-and-fly aircraft for amateur constructors.