Specifications: Max speed on land: 120 km/h (75 mph) Max speed in the air: 160 km/h (99 mph) Fuel capacity: 60 litres (13 Imp gals) Max range: 420 kms (261 miles) Max flying altitude: 1,800 ms (5,900 ft)/li> Payload: 101 kgs (227 lbs) Loaded weight: 265 kgs (584 lbs) History:

In mid 1926 Mr Edwin Prosser of Rockhampton, Qld enquired of the Comptroller of Civil Aviation if it was necessary to obtain a Certificate of Airworthiness for a light aircraft, indicating he was building a monoplane.

Little is known about this one-off aircraft but it was registered with the RAA as 19-4671 (c/n 60001) on 6 December 2000 and was withdrawn from service on 7 May 2011.

The PP-108 is a single-seat high-performance low-wing monoplane designed and built by Peter Prendergast of Ocean Grove Vic for high-performance aerobatics. It received its C of A on 11 March 2016 and was first registered on 29 February 2016 as VH-XSK (c/n 0015).

The Maya Ultralight was a single-seat ultralight aircraft aircraft with an enclosed cabin and powered by a 21-kw (28-hp) Konig SD-570 four-cylinder engine with an adjustable propeller.

In 1909 Messrs John Pechugin, a mechanical engineer and draftsman, and Henry Little, a foreman boilermaker, designed and built an aeroplane and are reported to have conducted secret trials of this aircraft on the Basic Reserve in Wellington.

This was an aircraft said to be built by Frank Peacock at Burwood, NSW in 1914. It was powered by a 21-kw (28-hp) engine but very little more is known about it and no record of a successful flight has been found.

Light homebuilt constructed in the Broken Hill / Ivanhoe, NSW area in the 1930s. Of similar appearance to a Comper Swift, it was fitted with a small radial engine, possibly a seven-cylinder Pobjoy or Siemens unit.

The Cygnet was a minimum ultra-light aircraft built in the 1970s. It was built of 4130 aluminium welded frame, had a high wing and an engine in a pusher configuration behind the pilot.

The Saratoga was introduced to the Piper range in 1980 and was the culmination of years of development of the PA-32 series through from the PA-32-260 Cherokee Six, which first appeared in 1965 and was in production for 14 years before being replaced by the PA-32R-300 Lance, which was a

In late 1957 the Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) announced that at its instigation preliminary design work had begun on a four-seat fully-aerobatic monoplane known as the PL-9, and that it was to be constructed at the Aero Clubs workshops at Archerfield, Qld.

The PZL 101 Gawron is a single engine rugged utility aircraft which was built in some numbers in Poland for the Eastern Europe market, being produced by WSK-Okecie, this company later becoming known as PZL Warszawa-Okecia and is a development of the Soviet-built Yakovlev Yak 12M.

Since the 1970s Pilatus Aircraft at Stans in Switzerland has been involved in the design and development of turboprop-power trainers for air forces, resulting in the PC-7, PC-9, and later the PC-21

The fastest biplane ever to see operational service, the I-153 made its operational debut during the Spanish Civil War, during which it became known as the Chaika (Gull).

The Provost replaced the Percival Prentice in service in 1953 as the basic training aircraft for the Royal Air Force.

The Pfalz D.XI appeared at the June 1918 German fighter trials at Adlershof and was shown in two models, one with a Mercedes D.IIIa engine and the other with a BMW III engine.

Pilatus Flugzeugwerke based at Stans. was established on 16 December 1939 to produce aircraft and one of its designs was the P-3 tandem two-seat trainer (HB-HON) first flown on 3 September 1953.

Based on the I-180 series, the I-185 was designed in 1940, which itself was developed from the I-16 but was virtually a new design.

In the late fifties design and development took place in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USSR of a series of two-seat military trainers to meet a common requirement, the proposal being that the best design of the three (TS-1 Iskra, L-29 Delfin and Yak 30) would be chosen for use by

Following the interest, and some success, with Triplanes by other manufacturers in Europe, Pfalz developed the Dr.1 Triplane, the prototype of which was powered by a 119 kw (160-hp) Siemens Halske Sh III geared rotary engine.

The PC-9 was a development of the very successful PC-7 Turbo-Trainer, the latter having the flat-rated 410 kw (550 shp) PT6A-25 engine and the PC-9 having the PT6A-62, flat-rated at 709 kw (950 shp) for take-off.

Considered by many to be one of the, if not the, most produced aircraft of all time, with estimates of aircraft completed ranging from 30,000 to 40,000, the Polikarpov PO-2, also known as the U-2, primary trainer biplane flew for the first time on 7 January 1928.

The I-16 (known as the Ishak or Rata) was designed by a team headed by Nikolai Polikarpov and was flown for the first time on 31 December 1933 fitted with a 336 kw (450-hp) M-22 engine (licence built Bristol Jupiter) and achieved a max speed of 360 km/h (224 mph).

The Plalz D.III or Scout was built by the Pfalz Flugzeug Werke on the Rhine River and designed by Rudolfo Gehringer following the completion of orders for the E-type monoplanes.

The Sassy is marketed by Protech Aircraft Inc in Houston, Texas, and is a simple-to-build two-seat side-by-side amateur built aircraft with STOL performance.

The PZL-102 Kos (Blackbird) was designed and developed by Polskie Zakladey Lotnicze (PZL), the prototype powered by a 48-kw (65-hp) Narkiewicz four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine flying for the first time on 21 May 1958.

PZL was founded in 1928 and has been involved in the construction of aeroplanes for many years.

Pilatus Flugzeugwerke was formed in December 1939 under the leadership of M E Buehrle, the Swiss industrialist and owner of the Oerlikon company.

The Alpha Electro is one of the first of a new generation of light training aircraft powered by electric motors and has been developed by Pipistrel, which is based in Slovenia’s Vipava Valley.

The J-5 Cruiser was a logical development of the earlier and very popular J-3 and J-4 series, designed to provide accommodation for three persons in lieu of two, this being achieved by a modest expansion of the fuselage width

The Virus and Sinus light powered gliders are members of a family of aircraft produced to meet world ultra-light regulations and which are produced in volume by Pipistrel in Slovenia for the world market.

The Piper Aircraft Corp in 1947 re-organised its operating procedures and worked towards introducing a new model, the two-seat side-by-side PA-15 Vagabond powered by a 48-kw (65-hp) Lycoming O-145 engine.

As would be expected, the S-2 was a natural two-seat development of the very popular single-seat S-1 series.

The Piper Colt was designed by the Piper Aircraft Corporation as a cheap ‘everymans aeroplane’ to sell in the United States for below $5,000 in the early 1960s.

In the 1980s Polaris Motor, an Italian company, commenced designing and producing a small flying-boat which was basically a trike with an amphibious hull.

Following the success of the earlier models of the Comanche, Piper moved on to build what it described in advertising as the ultimate light aircraft: ..this new Piper Comanche 400 is a pretty meaningful airplane

In 1939 Porterfield Aircraft Corp in Kansas City introduced a new range of light two-seat in tandem cabin monoplanes which were a development of the earlier Model 35 series.

In 1968 the Cherokee C variant joined the Cherokee range. Similar to the previous 150 and 160 models, this version added two more aircraft to the series: the PA-28-180 with a 134-kw (180-hp) Lycoming O-360-A3A engine, and the PA-28-235 with a 175-kw (235-hp) Lycoming O-540-B4B5 six-cylinder engine.

The Sparviero (Sparrow Hawk) is an Italian designed two-seat light sporting monoplane of all composite construction built as a complete aircraft by Pro Mecc Srl of Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy.

With numerous Piper Apaches and Aztecs having been adapted for commuter airline type work in the early 1960s, it was expected, when Piper unveiled the Navajo as the first of a new breed of twins, that variants would be built to meet the needs of the growing commuter market.