The design of the Learjet 45 was announced at the NBAA convention in the United States on 29 September 1992. The prototype/first production aircraft (N45XL) was first flown on 7 October 1995, being followed by the second aircraft (N452LJ) on 6 April 1996.

In 1926 the RAAF was seeking to obtain a number of new aircraft types, one of which was to be a single-engine biplane for army co-operation and light-bombing duties.

The Longhorn 55 was a development of the former Learjet series, being a mating of the wing used on the Series 28 and 29 with a new designed fuselage possessing a 50% greater cross section.

The Lasconder was the second commercial aircraft designed and built by the Larkin Aircraft Supply Co Ltd (LASCo).

The Lascoter single-engine cabin monoplane was designed by Mr W S Shackleton, a British designer, who visited and was resident in Australia for a period in the 1930s.

The Hitchhiker was designed, built and marketed by Robert Labahan of Seville, VIC in the mid 1980s as a single-seat, open-cockpit ultra-light suitable for cross-country and short field operations.

One of the important design bureaus in the Soviet Union during World War II was that headed by Semyon Alexse’evich Lavochkin.