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.

The Prentice was designed by Percival Aircraft to meet specification T23/43 for a three-seat basic and radio-navigational trainer for the RAF to replace the Tiger Moth in RAF service. The prototype (TV163) flew for the first time on 31 March 1946 and subsequently production of the T.1 model began for

The Freccia is one of a series of light aircraft designed and developed in Italy by Pro Mecc of Corigliano d’Otranto, being first shown to the aviation world at the Aero Show held in Friedrichshafen in 2011 It is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft and has been popular on

The SeaRey is produced in kit form by progressive Aerodyne Inc of Orlando, Florida.

The Koliber 150 has a long history.

The Cheyenne was a development of the pressurised Piper Navajo, as indicated by the common PA-31 type number, but was fitted with turboprop engines.

The CT-4E is a two-seat (with a third seat optional) low-wing all-metal single-engine monoplane with a fixed tricycle undercarriage, a Lycoming AEIO-540 fuel injected piston engine certified for inverted flight, driving a Hartzell three-blade constant speed propeller.

In 1981 Piper Aircraft sold the rights to the PA-36 type to WTA based in Texas which Company thereafter marketed two variants from 1982, these being the PA-36-375 New Brave and the PA-36-400 New Brave with 280-kw (375-hp) and 298-kw (400-hp) engines and by 1987 had completed 150 further aircraft,

The Brako series of gyrocopters was designed by Enio Pagotto in and is manufactured at a facility in Italy by Pagotto Carpenterie sri at Pianzano.

The Piper PA-44 Seminole was designed in 1974 as a twin-engine training aircraft for pilots who had previously flown only single-engine aircraft, basically being a replacement for the Twin Comanche

The P-1 is a light sporting aircraft which can be built in the Experimental aircraft category or as a Light Sports aircraft which is manufactured in Brazil by Paradise Industria Aeronautica Ltd.

To meet the needs of commuter airlines which, for some years, used Piper Navajo type aircraft, and which may seek to move up to turbine power in place of the piston-engined type,

The P-68 series of light transports was designed by Professor Luigi Pascale and placed in production in Italy by Partenavia in 1972. The prototype (I-TWIN) was flown on 25 May 1970, and this was followed by ten pre-production aircraft, these having a slightly shorter fuselage than the production aircraft, the

The Taurus is a light sport aircraft produced in Slovenia and, like the other aircraft in the company’s range, is basically a self-launched glider.

The prototype of the Pazmany series of aircraft, the PL-1 Laminar, was flown for the first time on 23 March 1962.

The Super Stinker was introduced to the unlimited aerobatic competition world in the early 1990s and is an upgraded variant of the Pitts S-1, being described as a ground-up re-design of the S-1, with increased manoeuvrability and more power.

The Pegasus Aircar was designed by Mr Raymond Tolhurst of Pegasus Aerocars Design Australia Pty Ltd, and built by his company, Composite Engineering at Camden, NSW in the 1990s as an all-composite light aircraft seating two powered by a fuel-injected turbocharged Mazda rotary engine from an RX-7 motor vehicle driving

The Pober Pixie was a single-seat light parasol wing sporting aircraft, the design of which began in January 1974, the prototype making its first flight some six months later.

The series of aircraft stemming from the Gull were all-wood low-wing monoplanes designed by Edgar W Percival, the Australian who founded Percival Aircraft Ltd.

The Porterfield 35-70 series of aircraft was placed in production by the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation in the USA in April 1935.

The Thunder Mustang was produced by Papa 51 Ltd at its facility at Nampa, Idaho and is an all-composite three-quarter scale replica of the North American P-51 Mustang.

Developed from the Piper Apache, and using many common components, the prototype of the Aztec series was flown for the first time in 1959.

The Parnall Penguin, also known as the Marshall Penguin, was designed and built by well known Australian aviation identity, the late Sidney Marshall, in the late 1950s.

In the late 1940s Piper Aircraft Corp at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania was looking at producing a four-seat high-wing monoplane along the lines of the PA-12 Super Cruiser and it became known as the PA-14 Family Cruiser, this being achieved by widening the fuselage by 10.16 cm (4-in) and it was

The Cherokee Arrow, which was added to the Cherokee range of light touring aircraft in June 1967, was virtually a retractable-undercarriage version of the fixed-undercarriage Cherokee.

The Pazmany PL-1, known as the Laminar for its laminar flow wing, was designed by Ladislao Pazmany for the home-built aircraft market, the prototype flying for the first time on 23 March 1962.

The Twin Comanche series was designed to fill a market need for a small economical multi-engined machine which would provide day, night and all-weather utility, geared to small airports and short fields.

Richard Pearse was one of New Zealands pioneering aviators, designing and building aircraft on his property at Waitohi on the South Island

On 21 December 1955 the prototype Percival EP-9 was flown for the first time by the aircraft’s designer, and founder of the company, Mr Edgar W Percival, an Australian-born designer and builder of several very successful aircraft.

Edgar Wikner Percival was born in Albury, NSW, in 1897 and died in 1984 at the age of 86 years.

The Proell O.1 was built by Proell Pty Ltd of Mannering Park, NSW and it was placed on the Australian Civil Aircraft Registered as VH-DSG (c/n 01) on 25 September 2000.

The Piaggio P.148 was designed by Giovani Casiraghi for Piaggio in Italy as a two-seat training aircraft, the prototype flying for the first time on 12 February 1951.

The Wilga (ie Thrush) was designed and built in Poland by Polskie Zaklady Lothicze (PZL) as a light general purpose utility aircraft and the prototype, known as the Wilga I (SP-PAZ), fitted with an indigenous 145-kw (195-hp) Narkiewicz WN-6B engine, flew for the first time on 24 April 1962.

Designed in France by M Claude Piel, the prototype of the Emeraude (Emerald) series, known as the CP-30, was flown for the first time in 1952 powered by a 48-kw (65-hp) Continental engine.